“I was always banging on stuff,” Appice continued. And the fact that I wasn’t just with one band, that I went from Vanilla Fudge to Cactus then to Jeff Beck, BBA, then on to playing with Mike Bloomfield, seven years with Rod Stewart, to Ted Nugent and Ozzy … So I had a lot of stories that touch on different people.” And these stories show up in his new memoir, sometimes in more detail than one might expect. “When I grew up, they said this is the best era of music, for rock music, that there ever was,” he told me during that interview. We first spoke with Appice in 2013, following the release of a new King Kobra record, while he was working on the book that finally hit shelves this past May. He encountered mobster Henry Hill and Fred Astaire witnessed the infamous Zeppelin mud shark escapade chatted with Jimi Hendrix before he was Jimi Hendrix and almost met his match with a near-lethal nosebleed. He played drums hard and became a legend, playing behind Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne and Jeff Beck, to name only a few. ![]() He was a tough kid in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood. Full of stories that can cause physical blushing and laugh-out-loud moments, Appice tells his story the way he experienced it. As in person, his written word is just as straightforward and that is what makes his new memoir, Stick It!, hard to put down. He doesn’t go down the frou-frou route with his stories of rock & roll rambunctiousness, groupies, gangsters, ill-fated marriages, a scary life-threatening incident and raids by the Sex Police led by Rod Stewart. You can always count on drummer Carmine Appice to tell it like it is.
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