Vinny Appice Vinny Appice Vincent Samson Appice (born September 13, 1957) is an American rock drummer of Italian descent and the younger brother of drummer Carmine Appice. He is best known for his work with the bands Dio, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and Big Noize. Appice took up the drums at the age of nine, taking lessons from the same teacher as his brother Carmine Appice. When he was sixteen, Appice and his band BOMF met John Lennon at Record Plant Studios, leading to him appearing on several Lennon recordings. He moved on to record with Rick Derringer on Derringer (1976),
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