In the late 1950s, Chicago-based Slingerland Drum Company’s president, Henry H. “Bud” Slingerland, Jr., contracted William ...

Carmine Appice is often regarded as one of the unsung legends of rock music, and while those in the know are able to recognise his worth in the canon, his name doesn’t get brought up anywhere near the ...

“A pivotal album for me. You’ve got The Ox, the instrumental, which is pretty much Keith Moon doing his Wipe Out. When I was first taking lessons, I’d have to play out of the drum books, but for the ...

Their saviour, of course, was Carmine Appice, who was brought in to help on the track ‘The Dogs of War’. There were many reasons for this, including Mason’s brief distraction with racing cars, but ...

The book claims that all or most ... and it’s by far the most shocking. In Carmine Appice’s 2016 autobiography, Stick It! My Life of Sex, Drums, and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Appice gleefully ...

An ear-pricking line from First Born Leaders blends unlikely instrumentation such as steel drums as it concludes: ‘Everybody wants what they cannot have.’ “You bet. It’s more true now than ever,” he ...

The drama between Mötley Crüe, former guitarist Mick Mars and noted rock and metal drummer Carmine Appice over the legendary hair metal band’s treatment of their former guitarist continues. Last month ...

The ongoing war of words between Nikki Sixx and Carmine Appice got a bit more spicy yesterday ... And with Vince’s [Neil] vocals, bass, drums, guitars, and all the other stuff, it was obvious that it ...