Vinny Appice "Sweet Evil" (1977), and "Derringer Live" (1977), before forming his own band Axis and recording "It's A Circus World" (1978). Appice joined Black Sabbath during the tour in support of the "Heaven and Hell" album in 1980. He was quickly brought in to replace original drummer Bill Ward, who quit the band mid-tour due to personal issues. Appice arrived for his first show with Black Sabbath at the Aloha Stadium in Hawaii with his entire drum kit packed into the back of a car. He was forced to learn the band's songs on stage, using hastily written crib notes for
Carmine carmine can be separated by dissolving it in ammonia. Good carmine should crumble readily between the fingers when dry. A reflectance spectroscopy study of one commercially available dye based on carminic acid found that it reflects mostly red light with wavelengths longer than about 603 nm, which provides its saturated red color. Carmine can be used as a staining agent in histology, as a "Best's carmine" to stain glycogen, "mucicarmine" to stain acidic mucopolysaccharides, and "carmalum" to stain cell nuclei. In these applications, it is applied together with a mordant, usually an Al(III) salt. Carmine was used in dyeing textiles