In a brand new interview with Marci Wiser of the 95.5 KLOS radio station, Carmine Appice was requested what he thinks it’s about his enjoying model that influenced so many different legendary rock drummers, together with Neil Peart, Roger Taylor, Phil Collins and John Bohnam. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Nicely, mainly, I have been round longer than these guys. And again within the day, when it was, like, ’67, there have been no monitor programs, there was no P.A.s hardly, so I used to have to actually beat the drums to get the sound out. After which I stated, ‘I am gonna get an enormous bass drum,’ ‘trigger the larger, the louder. So I acquired the larger bass drum. Then THE RASCALS had Dino Danelli, who was form of an affect on me… [And I thought], ‘I am gonna outdo him. I am gonna get a 26-inch bass drum that I purchased within the pawn store. That was very loud. So after I acquired an endorsement, I acquired all massive drums, very all outsized drums, and I needed to hit ’em tougher to get the sound finest. I used to be enjoying tougher than most drummers of the day. And by doing that, I had my very own sound. It was an enormous fats drum sound performed very heavy, very arduous. And I did that outta necessity. I did not sit down and go, ‘I am gonna create a brand new drum sound,’ you recognize? And I did that outta necessity, after which folks adopted me to do this, like John Bonham. After which, because it went on, after CACTUS and BECK, BOGERT & APPICE, different folks adopted it.”

He continued: “I noticed an interview, a YouTube factor all about VAN HALEN‘s ‘1984’, and Eddie [Van Halen] stated, his favourite [CACTUS] music ‘Parchman Farm’ was the template for his or her music ‘Scorching For Trainer’. I’ve heard that earlier than — Alex [Van Halen] advised me — however I might by no means seen it written down or proven within the video, and so they confirmed the band, they performed the music and so they put what Eddie stated on there, [his] remark. In order that was fairly good. It is simply stuff like that. ‘Trigger we have been pioneers. I used to be a pioneer within the drums. That music was the quickest double-bass drum shuffle that was recorded as much as that date.”

Again in November 2021, Appice as soon as once more repeated the declare that certainly one of Bonham‘s licks, a triplet bass drum motif used most prominently on “Good Occasions, Dangerous Occasions”, the opening observe on the primary LED ZEPPELIN album, was impressed by one thing Carmine did on both the primary VANILLA FUDGE LP or the “Renaissance” report. Carmine advised the “Musicians On Couches Consuming Espresso” podcast: “What it was I heard [LED ZEPPELIN‘s debut] album. [LED ZEPPELIN and VANILLA FUDGE] had the identical lawyer, and so they have been on the identical label. And my supervisor was related to their supervisor, Peter Grant; they have been each heavyweights. So when that album got here out — earlier than it got here out — they gave us a replica and so they stated, ‘We wanna put Jimmy Web page‘s new band on with you guys.’ We knew Jimmy Web page; we used to do gigs with THE YARDBIRDS. So after I heard the report and I heard the triplet on ‘Good Occasions, Dangerous Occasions’, I stated, ‘Woah! What a foot on this man. It is fairly superb.’ So on the very first gig that they performed with us, I stated to John, earlier than the gig, I stated, ‘I really like your foot on the report. It is unbelievable.’ And he stated, ‘Thanks. I acquired that from you.’ I stated, ‘You probably did. I do not bear in mind doing that.’ He stated, ‘Yeah, it is proper in your VANILLA FUDGE report.’ I stated, ‘The place is that?’ As a result of in these days — nonetheless at present, I do not play what I rehearse; I play no matter involves me after I’m doing it. So I had achieved it someplace on a report, so he pointed it out — I feel it was on the ‘Renaissance’ report… And he stated, ‘So I simply acquired that idea from what you probably did after which did what I did.’ And I stated, ‘Wow.'”

Appice went on to say that he did not really feel comfy citing his affect on Bonham in interviews for a very long time as a result of method the LED ZEPPELIN legend is credited with being an innovator who introduced an unprecedented degree of energy, velocity, and management to rock music, thereby setting the bar for all drummers coming after him.

“There was a time I could not actually discuss this as a result of ZEPPELIN was so massive and folks envisioned John Bonham like he was ‘it,’ he was God, and you’ll’t discuss that he acquired one thing from you, ‘trigger he was God — God does not get something from anyone,” Carmine stated. “And after I stated it, folks would say that I used to be loopy, I used to be egoing out, this and that. Then there was a guide that got here out referred to as ‘[John Bonham:] A Thunder Of Drums’. When that got here out, it advised these tales and it advised about when John Bonham got here again from enjoying with VANILLA FUDGE, how gaga he was about assembly me. And he was hanging out with Cozy Powell, telling him the tales about hanging out with me. And so they have been each gaga about hanging out with me. I did not know something about that till this guide got here out. After that guide got here out, it advised, with that being stated, that he really did hearken to me and that I was an affect on him.”

A 2017 weblog put up by Rain Metropolis Drummer, a weblog devoted to the artwork of drumming, tried to resolve Appice‘s declare that Bonham lifted the lick from Carmine, apparently with none success.

Carmine beforehand stated that Bonham took the bass drum triplets from the VANILLA FUDGE music “Ticket To Journey”, telling Basic Rock Revisited in a 2006 interview: “After I first heard John Bonham do this triplet factor on the bass drum, I went as much as him and stated, ‘John, that’s superb. I’ve to confess that I took that from you.’ He checked out me and stated, ‘What are you speaking about? I took that from you!’ I replied, ‘I do not do this. You could not have taken it from me.’ He proceeded to inform me the place I did really do this on the primary VANILLA FUDGE report and he was proper. I solely did it for a second on that album and he took it and made one thing larger and higher out of it.”

Again in 2014, Carmine stated that he would like to play with a reunited LED ZEPPELIN, claiming that he’s a greater match to exchange Bonham than John‘s son Jason.

“Everyone in that band there may be legendary… They’re old skool and legendary. Jason is not legendary, and he isn’t old skool,” Appice defined to the “Completely Pushed Radio” podcast. “He is John Bonham‘s son, however he do not play like John Bonham. He performs extra… He performs like him. He is not John. He is acquired that title, however he isn’t John Bonham. I am not John Bonham both, however I feel my model is likely to be shut, ‘trigger I got here first, and John listened to stuff I did and did it his personal method. And we took ’em on their first tour. It’s extremely close-sounding stuff in really feel.”

VANILLA FUDGE launched a set of LED ZEPPELIN covers, “Vanilla Zeppelin”, digitally final September by way of Golden Robotic Information.