Name	Carmine Appice
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Naionality	United States
Date of Birth	December 15, 1946
Place of Birth	Brooklyn, New York, United States
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A talented, flamboyant and well traveled Native New Yorker, Carmine Appice has quite a musical resume to his credit.

Born in Staten Island, New York, on December 17th 1946, Carmine is brother to another famous drummer, Vinny Cappice.

While growing up Carmine would visit with his cousin who was a keen drummer and he would play with his drum kit just for fun. Before reaching his teens his interest became more serious and he took lessons in Brooklyn, New York, along with his brother Vinny who also started playing drums at the age of nine.

Appice was heavily influenced by the jazz drumming of Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa, which set him on the road to drummer stardom, combined with his extensive classical training.

At the young age of sixteen Vinny had the enormous pleasure of meeting John Lennon at Record Plant Studios in NYC. While at the studio John asked Vinny and his band, BOMF, if they would perform the hand clapping on the track he was recording with Elton John, "What ever gets you through the night".
After that, Carmine’s brother played on a few projects with John and also appeared on three videos with John. Carmine, however, never met John Lennon or The Beatles as a group, but later in life he would meet up with George Harrison and Paul McCartney who expressed their appreciation of Carmine’s groups version of The Beatle’s Eleanor Rigby.

From there Vinny played on a few projects that Lennon was producing at the time. Vinny also appeared in 3 videos with John.Carmine’s Career as a world renowned drummer has bought him in contact with many of the music world’s greatest performers such as Ozzy Osbourne, with whom he appeared on “Bark at the Moon” video and with Ted Nugent of Pink Floyd on “A momentary Lapse of Reason”.
In 1991 he was immortalized by his induction into the Hollywood Rock Walk, his handprints and signature sit side by side with his idols Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. In a recent commemorative book, The Hollywood Rock Walk, a full page was dedicated to Carmine, next to a page on superstar James Brown.

It was in 1966 when he formed his first group with his friend Tom Bogart, Vanilla Fudge. They went on to have a gold selling album, entitled “Vanilla Fudge”. It is widely believed that they actually recorded Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” before Wonder himself, the single was first released by Wonder instead, making it look as though Vanilla Fudge had released a cover version.

After Vanilla Fudge Carmine and Tom went on to form the band Cactus, a group that has been a big influence on both Alex Van Halen and Eddie Van Halen. This union with Bogert evolved into an alliance with Grammy-winning guitar hero, Jeff Beck.

One of the highlights of Carmine’s musical career came in the 70’s and 80’s when he was invited to join Rod Stewart’s band after Rod had interviewed at least another forty drummers without success. It was during that period that Carmine discovered another talent as a writer. He co-wrote the song that has since become synonymous with Stewart, and which went to number one around the world in 1978. The single was, “Do ya’ think I’m Sexy”. The next hit he penned for Stewart was, “Young Turks” in 1981.

After gaining recognition as one of the premier showmen in rock, with his meticulous timekeeping skills, his showmanship, which includes stick tosses and twirls, power fills, and double-bass drum bombs, he became known worldwide for his astonishing live performances. In addition he become a highly sought-after session drummer and after a rewarding period with Rod Stewart, Carmine left to pursue his own projects. His first solo album “Rockers”, was followed by tours of the U.S. and Japan.

Next Carmine led the high-energy band King Kobra, recording two albums and touring internationally. 2007 is the 40th year of the career of Carmine Appice’s career as a legendary drummer and he still influences and inspires drummers throughout the world with his originality and a style he first termed “psychedelic symphonic rock”.

Carmine’s career has not been solely as a performer. He has, and continues to hold “clinics” throughout the world in far flung countries such as Argentina, New Zealand, France, Tokyo and many more. His clinics and master classes continue to break attendance records at venues in every country.

Carmine’s entire career has been devoted to being a teacher, a writer and performer of the drums. Along with writing music Appice has also written one of the top selling books of all time on drumming, “Realistic Rock” which has sold in excess of 300,00 copies and has now been released on video and an accompanying CD.

Now a days Carmine lives in New York City along with his girlfriend, radio personality, Leslie Gold, better known on the Internet for her daily radio pod cast.