Carmine Appice: When I first started playing drums, rock music was very basic, elementary. The only music with drums that inspired me was, “Wipe Out,” Sandy Nelson’s “Let There Be Drums” ...

However drummer Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, Rod Stewart and many more) claimed in a recent radio interview with The Freewaves WUNH, that Bonham borrowed a lot of his Vanilla Fudge stick ...

Vanilla Fudge performs May 2 at the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville, Bucks County. Carmine Appice has spent the majority of the last years perched at what could arguably be considered the ...