Vanilla fudge pops5/7/2023 ![]() I'm not John Bonham either, but I think my style might be close, 'cause I came first, and John listened to stuff I did and did it his own way. He's got that name, but he's not John Bonham. "He's John Bonham's son, but he don't play like John Bonham. Jason isn't legendary, and he's not old school," Appice explained to the "Totally Driven Radio" podcast. ![]() ![]() "Everybody in that band there is legendary… They're old school and legendary. I only did it for a moment on that album and he took it and made something bigger and better out of it."īack in 2014, Carmine said that he would love to play with a reunited LED ZEPPELIN, claiming that he is a better fit to replace Bonham than John's son Jason. You couldn't have taken it from me.' He proceeded to tell me where I did actually do that on the first VANILLA FUDGE record and he was right. I have to admit that I took that from you.' He looked at me and said, 'What are you talking about? I took that from you!' I replied, 'I don't do that. After that book came out, it told, with that being said, that he actually did listen to me and that I was an influence on him."Ī 2017 blog post by Rain City Drummer, a blog dedicated to the art of drumming, attempted to get to the bottom of Appice's claim that Bonham lifted the lick from Carmine, apparently without any success.Ĭarmine previously said that Bonham took the bass drum triplets from the VANILLA FUDGE song "Ticket To Ride", telling Classic Rock Revisited in a 2006 interview: "When I first heard John Bonham do that triplet thing on the bass drum, I went up to him and said, ' John, that is amazing. I didn't know anything about that until this book came out. And they were both gaga about hanging out with me. And he was hanging out with Cozy Powell, telling him the stories about hanging out with me. When that came out, it told these stories and it told about when John Bonham came back from playing with VANILLA FUDGE, how gaga he was about meeting me. Then there was a book that came out called ' A Thunder Of Drums'. "And when I said it, people would say that I was crazy, I was egoing out, this and that. "There was a time I couldn't really talk about this because ZEPPELIN was so big and people envisioned John Bonham like he was 'it,' he was God, and you can't talk about that he got something from you, 'cause he was God - God doesn't get anything from anybody," Carmine said. So I had done it somewhere on a record, so he pointed it out - I think it was on the 'Renaissance' record… And he said, 'So I just got that concept from what you did and then did what I did.' And I said, 'Wow.'"Īppice went on to say that he didn't feel comfortable bringing up his influence on Bonham in interviews for a long time due to the way the LED ZEPPELIN legend is credited with being an innovator who brought an unprecedented level of power, speed, and control to rock music, thereby setting the bar for all drummers coming after him. I don't remember doing that.' He said, 'Yeah, it's right on your VANILLA FUDGE record.' I said, 'Where is that?' Because in those days - still today, I don't play what I rehearse I play whatever comes to me when I'm doing it. It's unbelievable.' And he said, 'Thanks. It's pretty amazing.' So on the very first gig that they played with us, I said to John, before the gig, I said, 'I love your foot on the record. So when I heard the record and I heard the triplet on 'Good Times, Bad Times', I said, 'Woah! What a foot on this guy. So when that album came out - before it came out - they gave us a copy and they said, 'We wanna put Jimmy Page's new band on with you guys.' We knew Jimmy Page we used to do gigs with THE YARDBIRDS. ![]() And my manager was connected to their manager, Peter Grant they were both heavyweights. had the same attorney, and they were on the same label. In a 2021 interview with the "Musicians On Couches Drinking Coffee" podcast, VANILLA FUDGE drummer Carmine Appice once again repeated the claim that one of John Bonham's licks, a triplet bass drum motif used most prominently on "Good Times, Bad Times", the opening track on the first LED ZEPPELIN album, was inspired by something Carmine did on either the first VANILLA FUDGE LP or the "Renaissance" record.Ĭarmine said: "What it was I heard album. ![]() VANILLA FUDGE rolls these classics out in their own way, with some amazing and soaring organ interludes and adding their soul and funked up influence, giving these songs a new life and identity of their own. This is LED ZEPPELIN done " FUDGE" style and fully remastered. After recently releasing three remastered cover versions of LED ZEPPELIN classics "Rock And Roll", "Immigrant Song" and "Ramble On", VANILLA FUDGE will release the album "Vanilla Zeppelin" digitally on September 30 via Golden Robot Records. ![]()
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