Carmine Appice

Carmine Appice born December 15 1946 is an American rock drummer best known for his associations with Vanilla Fudge Cactus the power trio Beck Bogert Appice Rod Stewart King Kobra and Blue Murder He is also Vinny Appices older brother Appice was inducted into the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2014 He is credited with influencing later rock drummers including Iron Maidens Nicko McBrain Aerosmiths Joey Kramer Roger Taylor of Queen Phil Collins of Genesis Rushs Neil Peart Mötley Crües Tommy Lee Slayers Dave Lombardo Richard Christy David Kinkade Ray Mehlbaum Led Zeppelins John Bonham Ian Paice of Deep Purple Anvils Robb Reiner and Eric Singer of Kiss His bestselling drum instruction book The Realistic Rock Drum Method was first published in 1972 and has since been revised and republished as The Ultimate Realistic Rock Drum Method It covers the basic subjects of rock rhythms and polyrhythms linear rudiments and groupings shuffle rhythms hihat and double bass drum exercises Description above from the Wikipedia article Carmine Appice licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia