Carmine Appice II" featuring the song "Have a Good Time", for which a music video was filmed in Fall of 2012 at Count's Vamp'd in Las Vegas. Appice published his memoir, "Stick It!: My Life of Sex, Drums & Rock 'n' Roll ", in 2016. Appice is set to play with Vinnie Vincent in a mini-reunion show slated originally for December 2018 but moved to February 2019. Carmine Appice Beck, Bogert & Appice Blue Murder Cactus Char, Bogert & Appice Derringer, Bogert & Appice DNA Jan Akkerman KGB King Kobra Marty Friedman Michael Schenker Mother's Army Pappo's Blues Paul Stanley Pearl Pink
Carmine Appice basic subjects of rock rhythms and polyrhythms, linear rudiments and groupings, shuffle rhythms, hi-hat and double bass drum exercises. Of Italian descent, Appice is the elder brother of drummer Vinny Appice by 11 years. Appice first came to prominence as the drummer with the late 1960s psychedelic band Vanilla Fudge. Appice contributed distinctive background harmonies with bassist Tim Bogert. After five albums, the pair left Vanilla Fudge to form the blues rock quartet Cactus, with vocalist Rusty Day and guitarist Jim McCarty. Appice and Bogert then left Cactus to join Jeff Beck in the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice.