![]() ![]() So he put it together in the studio, he came up with a little bit for the bridge and we presented it to Rod and he loved it, it sounded good. I said, “ I need help with this, I want it to sound really good for Rod. He had a proper 8-track TX studio and keyboards and drum machines. And then I went to my buddy Duane Hitchings’ house. I came up with some cool chords for the verse and the chorus. So I went back, I had a keyboard and a drum machine at my house. With ‘Young Turks’ he wanted a more New Wave-kind of song. Rod said, “ I want a song like ‘Missing You,’ like the Stones. Rock Cellar: How did you come to write “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” with Rod Stewart? You’ve said that it was originally more of a rock track.Ĭarmine Appice: It was. We had the track so we talked to the manager and said, “ Why don’t we make a single out of it?” We did a video for it and at the end of the video we said we did it as a tribute to Tim. That was the end of the idea of the album because we weren’t able to get together. Then COVID hit, and that was the end of that idea. I arranged for Tim to go over there, his wife took him. I arranged for Tim to go to my buddy Jorgen Carlsson’s studio, the bass player of Gov’t Mule, he had a little studio. Pete put a rough bass on it just so we had some bass. We put the arrangement together in the studio, recorded it with the idea that Tim was going to put the bass on. We rehearsed a few times at our current bass player Pete Bremy’s house, he has a little rehearsal setup for us. We went into a studio in New Jersey and Mark had the idea for the arrangement. ![]() We had recorded the track around December of 2019. He didn’t want to bring his six-string, which was too heavy for him anyway. But he came out, he even had his freakin’ pajamas on, he bought a four-string Fender bass because he knew that I loved the way he played four-string. He had stage IV cancer, he wasn’t doing well. When COVID hit, it stopped the album idea but we had recorded one track, which was “Stop in the Name of Love.” I asked Tim if he would play on a track or two on the album and he said “definitely.” ![]() The first single from the album is “Rocket to the Sun.”Ĭarmine Appice: This was going to be part of an album that was going to be called Supreme Fudge on Golden Robot Records. 24, 2021 marked the release of Energy Overload by the Appice Perdomo Project (APP), an instrumental album that pairs the drummer with multi-instrumentalist and guitarist Fernando Perdomo. Its 35 tracks feature Slash, Brian May, Ted Nugent, Yngwie Malmsteen, Neal Schon, Richie Sambora, Zakk Wylde and many other guitar gods. Guitar Zeus 25th Anniversary Box Set (click here to pick up from our Rock Cellar Store) is a collection of four LPs, three CDs and a photo and interview booklet. Appice has recently released two major projects: First published in 1972, it has been revised and republished as The Ultimate Realistic Rock Drum Method. He conducts drum clinics and is the author of the best-selling drum instruction book The Realistic Rock Drum Method. As a member of Stewart’s backing band, Appice co-wrote the monster hits “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” and “Young Turks.”Īppice continues to perform with Vanilla Fudge. Appice has performed with rock heavyweights Rod Stewart, Paul Stanley, Pink Floyd and Ozzy Osbourne, with whom he toured in 1983 but was fired after a dispute with Sharon Osbourne. He has been a member of power rock bands Cactus, Beck, Bogert & Appice (with Jeff Beck), King Kobra and Blue Murder. Drummer Carmine Appice burst on the rock scene in 1967 when Vanilla Fudge, with singer-keyboardist Mark Stein, guitarist Vince Martell and bassist Tim Bogert, had a Top 10 hit with “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.” The psychedelic rock remake of the Supremes’ hit was the band’s first single.Īppice has barely slowed down since then. ![]()
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