Groupies, drugs and Satanism went hand in hand with the heaviest band in rock history. Then why does Becoming Led Zeppelin ...

“We’d come over with hardly anything, and we knew The Who were going to have a wall of equipment,” recalled Carmine Appice, the band’s drummer ... shone down to the bass drum, which said, ‘Vanilla ...

That was where I came across Blue Murder. They were the band John Sykes put together when he left Whitesnake after the big 1987 record – it was him, Carmine Appice from Vanilla Fudge and Tony Franklin ...

Sykes went on to release five solo albums, including strong live effort “Bad Boy Live!” in 2004. But for much of his later ...

After Whitesnake, Sykes formed the group Blue Murder with drummer Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, then launched a solo career; he also toured with a Lynott-less incarnation of Thin Lizzy.

At first it was an in-person lecture series, and he then began bringing in guests, including Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice and iconic record executives such as Clive Davis and Seymour Stein.

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John Sykes, a hard-rock guitarist and singer who played with Thin Lizzy before joining Whitesnake for its smash 1987 album and later forming Blue Murder, has died of cancer. He was 65. The news was ...

the heavy bass drum work of Carmine Appice. While Vanilla Fudge influenced the ‘Mark II’ line-up of Deep Purple finding their sound – their most crucial iteration – their rhythmic blaze also had a ...