Carmine Appice Diaries

The Lizzie Rose Music Room in Tuckerton, NJ is excited to announce the Storyteller Series kicking off on Friday January 13th with Carmine Appice Diaries. The legendary drummer will speak about his enduring career as one of rock music’s top drummers. Carmine is available for interviews.

Carmine tells his personal stories from onstage and beyond with a little drumming and an audience meet & greet!

Carmine Appice is repeatedly named on multiple “Top Drummers of All Time” lists including those of Rolling Stone and Modern Drummer magazines. His career includes time with Vanilla Fudge (still touring!), Rod Stewart with whom he co-authored the mega hits “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” and “Young Turks”, Ozzy Osbourne, Cactus and Jeff Beck to name a few. He is widely credited as an influence on many top rock music drummers including Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham and Queen’s Roger Taylor.

Carmine Appice Diaries also feature Vanilla Fudge tour mates Jimi Hendrix, Cream, and opening act Led Zeppelin. More must hear stories include Pink Floyd, John Lennon and Paul Stanley of KISS.

In 1967 Carmine began his professional career setting the grooves for Vanilla Fudge’s groundbreaking psychedelic debut, inadvertently inventing “Stoner Rock” in the process. The Fudge had no precedent. No rock group, up until that point, had ever s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out well-known pop tunes like the Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” and “Ticket To Ride,” Curtis Mayfield‘s “People Get Ready,” and, most famously, The Supremes‘ Motown classic “You Keep Me Hangin‘ On” to such hippie heights.  Carmine had set a new benchmark for rock drumming. Vanilla Fudge’s debut album is still considered a Hard Rock classic.