Cool to hear a mention of ROCKNPOD. I'm the owner of it. Carmine was great to work with and awesome with the fans. Love your interviews Eric. Would be cool if you make it to next year's event.
You don't want to dig too deep with Vinnie. Everybody's got a bitch with him. But you knew that going in. I m neutral on the subject. I hope he realizes he'd got a folloeing
Everyone can disagree with Vinnie, he can also screw everyone. He can afford to do it because his great talent will allow him to do it. His songwriting and guitar playing talents have always allowed him to get away with it, that's why he's like that.
Vinnie is a great talent. No doubt about it. That's the reason why Gene and Paul wrote songs with him after he left/kicked out/fired from Kiss. He has the talent. Otherwise, he is a very strange person. Just really strange. Business wise....well his history speaks for itself. Top notch talent with a ton of baggage is what Vinnie is.
Have You ever met Vinnie? I'm in Tennessee. I grew up in Rutherford County where He has/had His house . He's talented , He just keeps shooting Himself in the foot when it comes to business. He owns the rights to Eric Carr's makeup.
@@whataboutrob442 Some songs never get the recognition they deserve and other songs get the recognition they don't deserve lol Some of these songs did become kiss hit songs. He did minor hits with VVI and other artists sang his songs as well but not very familiar with how well they did
Carmine I remember hanging with you discussing the Paul solo album. We were heading to the Vanilla Fudge gig with The Doors in Charlotte N.C. Great drummer great career .
People think Appice comes across as arrogant, but he's seen pretty much everything throughout the years and is brutally honest. If he claims he did something, he ain't lying.
Lol-Carmine has been in about a hundred bands in his career and about 95 of them were total shit or blew up in spectacular manner! He’s a great storyteller.Sounds like listening to a guy in a bar in Brooklyn talking about all the bullshit he’s been through.
I love the way Carmine played on some of the covers that Vanilla Fudge were doing in the 1960s. He was creative and powerful . Same with the BBA live album. But honestly I didn't care much for the Blue Murder or King Kobra material. It just sounded like a thousand other bands of the era. It wasn't terrible but there wasn't much there to distinguish it from the other over produced , image obsessed rock bands of the 80s
@@lrn_news9171 Carmine has been in about a thousand bands. Somehow him leaving or being fired is never his fault. Any band that he's in that doesn't succeed is never his fault
@@allsystemsgo8678 In my case I have a similar story. Every project I've started that didn't work out wasn't my fault but that's like 3 projects so it's not a big number lol
Who is paying $500 for Vinnie Vincent’s autograph? I’d like to introduce them to this Nigerian prince who needs their money or there is this bridge I have for sale.
There's a sucker born every minute. Every election cycle, hundreds of thousands of people actually volunteer to give their own hard-earned money to political campaigns, FFS.
I've worked in live music venues for over 35 years. One of the first shows I worked was a drum clinic with Sandy Generro (Pat Travers), Michael Derosier (Heart), can't remember the 3rd, and Carmine Appice. The first three guys were great guys, Carmine was the maybe having a bad day, but I never met anybody, in 35 years, who went so far out of their way to degrade everyone around him. He yelled at our staff and their road crew, the whole day. It did give us all something to talk about and remember. After that, any time we had a difficult day, we'd joke about Camine and his leopard leggings - what an asshole.
CA worked with half the people in rock'n'roll over a period of decades and nothing he was in lasted. Definitely everyone else's fault, every time. Just ask him.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 He does have that kind of vibe doesn't he. Even during this interview you can kind of see that tries to make himself be the peacemaker share the pie kind of guy and I don't really buy that either. He is probably a better guy now than he was back then.
What and that's something to be proud about. While it was a huge hit for rod it also is what helped start all the rod is gay stuff. Great Band with Phil Chen on bass horrible song released at the epitome of disco. Kiss another disco band back then. I was floored to hear I was made for posing as a rock star.
I think Vinnie is brilliant but I think you have to be weird or have a certain degree of madness for Brilliant, question is can you control yourself, sometimes I think you can collapse under your own genius. I am glad Vinnie is back and wish him the best.
Weird how Carmine played with like half the people in rock'n'roll for decades and none of the bands/line-ups he was in could stay together. Definitely everyone else's fault... just ask him.
Yeah, I wouldn't trust VV as far as I could spit him. I saw the two final VVI shows, and the other guys were just waiting to dump him because Chrysalis gave them the remainder of his contract.
Obviously, musicians are weirder than most. But VV has always taken things too far; weird doesn’t mean you get to lack integrity or treat others like crap.
Anyone hoping for a VV comeback needs to watch him jamming at a pre-KISS Cruise gig, playing with a very talented cover band Vinnie simply could not do a fucking thing. 25 minutes he stood there, played some basic chords, zero shredding. He was very much welcomed with open arms. I absolutely would've went if I was anywhere near it. He is legendary. But he can't play anymore.
Yeah, Robert Fleischman has said similar things. Questionable things have been done by Mr. Vincent in the past, such as tricking a 19 yo Goran Edman into coming to the States… only to keep him locked up in studio, for an album “Pyro messiah” which never ended being released. And also I never understood why Vinnie hates Dana Strum & Mark Slaughter the way he does.
@@paulhaynes561 Gene has an ego that would dwarf the Statue of Liberty, but i don't think he had any delusions of grandeur where his music was concerned.
Gene will boast he’s “the richest rock star ever/the most laid rock star ever” as opposed to “the most talented rock star ever”- he is a massive egotist but not delusional.
from what i have seen on the Kiss Kruise and Atlanta , i don't think VV has his chops up. I think dropping out is too much for this kind of player . He played guitar like guitar was an adreniline high, and it is all encompassing, i think he is beyond it and calmed down . i don't like saying that, but VV recorded some of the sickest guitar jams ever on Guitarmageddon, a ledgend . He was driven to create and it nearly destroyed him . i listen to his work in awe, because as far out in reckless abandon some of it is he had the focus to produce, and edit himself as the sickest metal guitar player ever, and it is even more amazing he could calmly slow down and explain the mechanics of what made him tick
All these years later, and Vinnie still hasn't learned his lesson, still screws people over, and still charges outrageous sums for shit merchandise. He's got nobody to blame but himself for his failures in life.
Or NO merchandise. Didn't he once sell a boxed set or something? Charged an outrageous amount of money, and no one ever received it. And never refunded anyone.
As strange as Tim Curry was in The Rocky Horror Picture Show...I'd still pick Tim Curry to hang out with. Ain't no way in HADES I'd ever hang out with Vinnie Vincent. He's a true loser! And-If what Carmine Appice is saying here is true, then Vinnie's a thief, too!
I've jammed with both Vinnie and Carmine. Both great Carmine came out of the chute with drum sticks in hand. A natural talent Vinnie had to work for it. Not knocking Vinnie, but Carmine was something else
You know what, how Vinnie was in the past is in the god damn past. I am so sick of people talking shit. He isn’t that person anymore. He is such a nice guy. People making fun of him for who he is today. What? He gained weight. He always wore make up and always had bangs. I want to see you hacks pick up a guitar and play 1/4 as good as Vinnie. Side note King Cobra sucked, Bullet boys sucked!!! Pussy bands!
Amen, no one is perfect and I am sure he fighting some inner demons and he seems like a very humble person and I wish him the best, Eric and Vinnie saved KISS.
Depends who you ask. Carmine Appice says it one way, Vinny Appice says it the other way. Which is odd considering they're brothers. I bet Thanksgiving dinner with their family is lots of fun.
Vinnie's playing back in the mid 80's was just a circle jerk of puking out notes as fast as he could. No emotion or restraint at all. Besides that, how do you go from being able to play like Vinnie could, and knowing music theory to now looking at a guitar like it's a foreign object?
Why do all guitarists need "restraint"? Shit gets fucking boring after awhile. I like that he did what he wanted. Not everyone wants to be "Gary Moore" or Page
@@aliceflores812 Like I said, there was nothing to his solos but a bunch of garbage. Listen to Boyz Are Gonna Rock. The solo in it is just puke. Everything he did sounded the same
King Kobra, VV Invasion & Bullet Boys...three of the worst and most infamous bands from the gutters of glam metal. "KK III" it´s an atrocious album. Great work with Ozzy & the Blue Murder album tho.
@Dust Devil "weren't THAT bad" you're right bro. They weren't totally terrible lol I still have their first two albums. I used to listen a lot "Freakshow". Now I can't listen any of both. I always considered Bullet Boys a sub-par band like thousands of many others back in the day. Bands orchestrated by labels & producers not musicians. Who wants to listen a Van Halen wannabe? They had Ted Templeman but not an Eddie..Sweda it's a decent guitarist & Torien it's an screaming cat compared with the mighty Roth. That's the reason why they didn't succeed their first (and successful debut). "Freakshow" had a lot of potential but ruined by a TOO all over the top vocals IMHO.
Carmine has explained it publicly that he chose the pronunciation A-piece, leading to confusion when his brother chose the Italian pronunciation. Just Google it.
Carmine is the only drummer arrogant enough to show up to a Bonham tribute show Annnd...not have learned the drum part to the song he played. True story.
Kiss got rid of Ace for being unstable and then went and replaced him with Vinny? Ace's craziness came from partying to hard and making bad decisions. With Vinny, its all intentional.
Carmine is a great drummer and certainly a legend.. but he's got a habit of laying claim to inventing or influencing everyone in rock and roll for the last 50 years! He claims he taught John Bonham the bass drum triplets Bonham was famous for. He claims he got Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart back together. Here he is claiming the Bullet Boys fame was due to them ripping him off.
It's true that bulletboys were doing a few songs from King Kobra like "Kissin kitty", there's a King Kobra demo of that song with Marq Torien on vocals and Mick Swede on guitar. Perhaps Marq, Mick and Lonnie wrote that song and Carmine has nothing to do with it except play drums on it
@Donnie (guitar tech) Ian Paice has said Purple were influenced by Fudge when they first started but Paice hasn't said Carmine himself was an influence on his own playing. Paice was mainly influenced by the jazz greats.
@Donnie (guitar tech) I hear you- Carmine 's pedigree as a hard rock/heavy metal drummer who's been around isn't surpassed by many; he got kicked out of Ozzy's band because Sharon wanted a cut of the side projects he was doing (things he had built up before his tenure with Ozzy) and he was "too big" for a simple "drummer" by her rationale. Her exact words to him were "you need your own band"..She didn't like band members having tooooo much celebrity status. His impact on the genre will probably never be fully appreciated because he never had a long tenure in any larger than life band. As for VV he turned a brief tenure in KISS into a shit show-he could have probably rode that out for the rest of his life, not getting mega-rich maybe but living comfortably off it with a little effort. Instead he screwed a lot of people with cancelled gigs, signed guitars that were never shipped and a bunch of other stuff.
He loves to hear his own voice. "I replaced Tommy Aldridge in Ozzy's band because he had bad timing." -Carmine Appice. "Sharon thought I was too popular for the band and fired me and hire Tommy Aldridge." -also Carmine Appice. So they replaced him with the guy with the bad timing that he originally replaced?!?!?! Got it. I had the opportunity to meet him twice through a very famous L.A. studio drummer and I had/have ZERO interest. He doesn't impress me in the least.
@Donnie (guitar tech) when you are full of yourself and love to hear your own voice, all the stuff you named gets overlooked. Go look at Vinnie Colaiuta's discography and watch a video of him talk and be interviewed. Humble, nice guy with no ego. Carmine should take a lesson from his in that area.
Wasn't Vinnie Vincent the guy who for a minute back in the day used a multi-neck guitar with necks going in both directions? Whoever it was, they definitely stole that idea from Carmine Apiece.
It's at least plausible. Vinnie's first wife AnnMarie was murdered in 1998, after they'd divorced. Google pulled up multiple news stories mentioning that she was working as a part-time escort at the time.
Met Carmine at a BBQ at Eric Singer’s house (yeah, I know…name dropping, but it’s true) and he’s a cool guy. And I later met his brother Vinnie, who was even nicer.
@@NameThatSong1 Carmine's brother Vinny, also an accomplished and sort-of-famous drummer, pronounces it the way you wrote it. Carmine has always pronounced it "apiece." Why, I do not know.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 I remember Vinnie was also in many bands/projects. Yes, he was not as famous as his brother. I imagine Carmine just got use to everyone pronouncing his last name wrong?
I must have seen them on the same tour but in Springfield Mass They were corny as hell. Telling everyone to do the cobra WTF not cool at all. I always considered bands like King Cobra to be more of a joke than Spinal Tap sad thing was they were serious.
I will always love Vinnie's, 'That time of year.' That song should be on the radio, everywhere.
Yep. Imagine if Bon Jovi released it in ~87/88.
Full in bloom.... the best thing on UA-cam.
I started listening to this a few months ago...pure gold!
I like how this guy is not over the top like Eddie Trunk..Great interview !
Totally agree
Agree 100%!
I like how he doesn’t have a fake disingenuous laugh like Eddie
Eddie is pure cringe
Eddie usually does most of the talking.
Carmine & the Rockers sound like some gang on Happy days. "YO CARMINE THE FONZ IS HERE!"
Carmine was gearing up to do a full of album of doo-wop songs, but Billy Joel stole his idea.
Carmine can be quite full of himself but in an innocent way. I love the guy, probably one of the best consistent and reliable drummers of all time.
Cool to hear a mention of ROCKNPOD. I'm the owner of it. Carmine was great to work with and awesome with the fans. Love your interviews Eric. Would be cool if you make it to next year's event.
Vinnie layed down LOVE KILLS. That's one of my all time favorite ballads in metal. And it shall remain. Good luck to vinnie
Vinnie was definitely a talented song writer and guitarist. The lyrics to love kills are very good, you can tell he was a good lyricist as well
He should have stuck with those rock ballads, uptempo metal is not Vinnie’s comfort zone.
You don't want to dig too deep with Vinnie. Everybody's got a bitch with him. But you knew that going in. I m neutral on the subject. I hope he realizes he'd got a folloeing
@@markr.devereux3385 I know Vinnie probably has psychological problems but I'm still a fan. If anything it adds to his appeal.
Everyone can disagree with Vinnie, he can also screw everyone. He can afford to do it because his great talent will allow him to do it.
His songwriting and guitar playing talents have always allowed him to get away with it, that's why he's like that.
Carmine and the Rockers??? What did Carmine think that it was fuckin 1956?
omg...lmaooooo
Ha ha, maybe...
He was all set to do a full album of doo-wop, but Billy Joel stole his idea.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 innocent man
@@michaelfrazia4569 yep.
I was kidding, BTW. Just making fun of Carmine constantly claiming everyone else in music stole every idea from him.
Vinnie is a great talent. No doubt about it. That's the reason why Gene and Paul wrote songs with him after he left/kicked out/fired from Kiss. He has the talent. Otherwise, he is a very strange person. Just really strange. Business wise....well his history speaks for itself. Top notch talent with a ton of baggage is what Vinnie is.
His songs aren't that good. If they were, how come only a handful of people know about him.
@@whataboutrob442 Name me some bands you love and I’ll show you how many of their songs that I don’t know who the writer is.
Have You ever met Vinnie? I'm in Tennessee. I grew up in Rutherford County where He has/had His house . He's talented , He just keeps shooting Himself in the foot when it comes to business. He owns the rights to Eric Carr's makeup.
Maybe he has a tumor on his brain!
@@whataboutrob442 Some songs never get the recognition they deserve and other songs get the recognition they don't deserve lol
Some of these songs did become kiss hit songs. He did minor hits with VVI and other artists sang his songs as well but not very familiar with how well they did
Love your interview style,great content as always
Carmine I remember hanging with you discussing the Paul solo album. We were heading to the Vanilla Fudge gig with The Doors in Charlotte N.C. Great drummer great career .
I still have a HAWK flyer from back in the day, lol. What a great time to have grown up.
Carmine is like the Steven Segal of music.
Underrated comment!
He’s like the Chuck Norris of martial arts films…
Nicely done, great interview as always..
People think Appice comes across as arrogant, but he's seen pretty much everything throughout the years and is brutally honest. If he claims he did something, he ain't lying.
That song Love Kill great guitar work and the singer is amazing singing that song!
That singer was Mark Slaughter
Great interview!
I love Carmine he is brutally honest
Carmine invented everything according to Carmine.
I have a Vinnie Vincent tee shirt in his KISS regalia. And one of his solo CDs.
Carmine Appice is an amazing drummer and writer, a definite staple of the rock world..!!!!!!!!!11
Lol-Carmine has been in about a hundred bands in his career and about 95 of them were total shit or blew up in spectacular manner!
He’s a great storyteller.Sounds like listening to a guy in a bar in Brooklyn talking about all the bullshit he’s been through.
I used to play in a band with someone who is that type of guy. Only this person plays guitar. I was his bass player.
There in bar/lounges everywhere.
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I love the way Carmine played on some of the covers that Vanilla Fudge were doing in the 1960s. He was creative and powerful . Same with the BBA live album. But honestly I didn't care much for the Blue Murder or King Kobra material. It just sounded like a thousand other bands of the era. It wasn't terrible but there wasn't much there to distinguish it from the other over produced , image obsessed rock bands of the 80s
Carmine is an original member of VF. He's still in the Fudge.
crazy interview lol
Vinnie Vincent turned out to be a wonderful middle aged cat lady. Love those Pants-suits he wears…
😂😂😂
You have a very cruel and funny sense of humor
And you know Vinnie Vincent is wearing granny panties under those pants suits.
A rumor has been flying around that he has been taking estrogen and other such feminizing drugs. By the looks of him - the rumors might just be true.
@@scottdunn2178 I think he/she's either intersex or was just flat out a girl at birth and is going back to living as a girl.
King Kobra and Blue murder are two of the greatest bands ever. Just ask Carmine.
Blue Murder's first album was great. But, for whatever reason, it didn't sell.
Not a big Vinnie fan, but, it’s laughable that Appice would call anyone a troublemaker
Why?
@@lrn_news9171 Carmine has been in about a thousand bands. Somehow him leaving or being fired is never his fault. Any band that he's in that doesn't succeed is never his fault
@@allsystemsgo8678 Not very familiar with him tbh
I know he was in King Kobra and blue murder or something and that's about it.
@@allsystemsgo8678 In my case I have a similar story. Every project I've started that didn't work out wasn't my fault but that's like 3 projects so it's not a big number lol
@@allsystemsgo8678 He's a journeyman like Tommy Aldridge. It doesn't mean he's a troublemaker.
The guy on the right next to Carmine looks like he could have been Macaulay Culkin's dad.
😂 I was just thinking that!
LMFAO 😂🤣😂🤣
One dislike? I guess Vinnie didn't like this one🤔
He's definitely one of a kind. I think He's has all of His marbles.
@@scottdunn2178 🤣😂
Did he lose two of his marbles?
I think those marbles are just tucked back up in His tummy. And I do believe I ment to type lost in their.... Long time ago though. 🤣
Who is paying $500 for Vinnie Vincent’s autograph? I’d like to introduce them to this Nigerian prince who needs their money or there is this bridge I have for sale.
There's a sucker born every minute. Every election cycle, hundreds of thousands of people actually volunteer to give their own hard-earned money to political campaigns, FFS.
I've worked in live music venues for over 35 years. One of the first shows I worked was a drum clinic with Sandy Generro (Pat Travers), Michael Derosier (Heart), can't remember the 3rd, and Carmine Appice. The first three guys were great guys, Carmine was the maybe having a bad day, but I never met anybody, in 35 years, who went so far out of their way to degrade everyone around him. He yelled at our staff and their road crew, the whole day. It did give us all something to talk about and remember. After that, any time we had a difficult day, we'd joke about Camine and his leopard leggings - what an asshole.
CA worked with half the people in rock'n'roll over a period of decades and nothing he was in lasted.
Definitely everyone else's fault, every time. Just ask him.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 He does have that kind of vibe doesn't he. Even during this interview you can kind of see that tries to make himself be the peacemaker share the pie kind of guy and I don't really buy that either. He is probably a better guy now than he was back then.
I heard him tell some guy in a suit he’d break his kneecaps. Real greaseball sh!t.
Troublemaker? That’s what rock and roll used to represent.
Sure.
But vinnie has proven to be a conman, not very rock and roll.
@Donnell Okafor hugs from Canada my friend.
Isn’t Vinnie Vincent related to Steve Stevens
Yes, & Peter Peters is their uncle.
Carmine is a legend!!!
xoxo The Clarences
FUN FACT: Carmine co-wrote "Do You Think Im Sexy" with Rod Stewart 😯
The truly incredible talent of playing real drums and making them sound exactly like a hastily-programmed drum machine. What a genius.
What and that's something to be proud about. While it was a huge hit for rod it also is what helped start all the rod is gay stuff. Great Band with Phil Chen on bass horrible song released at the epitome of disco. Kiss another disco band back then. I was floored to hear I was made for posing as a rock star.
He even played with Schenker!
They need to make the shirt that says my Eagle is almost as big as Vinnie Appice e
I think Vinnie is brilliant but I think you have to be weird or have a certain degree of madness for Brilliant, question is can you control yourself, sometimes I think you can collapse under your own genius. I am glad Vinnie is back and wish him the best.
Strange is one thing, but that isn’t an excuse to hurt others.
@full in bloom What's the song that plays at the end of all your clips?
"The Parting" by FOOL OF FATE
@@fullinbloom Thanks for answering. I enjoy your clips.
@@meatwad1 Thanks for listening.
@@fullinbloom Thanks for giving me something to listen to.
This dude needs to be on a bus for Nikki Sixx both of those guys ego gets to the concert before they do
Weird how Carmine played with like half the people in rock'n'roll for decades and none of the bands/line-ups he was in could stay together. Definitely everyone else's fault... just ask him.
"King Kobra Made Their MARCIE!
Damn! Scorch!!!
Carmine voice sounds like Christopher Walken.
It does.
More cow bell
Both from NYC
No.
Never seen Vinnie vencent play or ever cared to
If Vinnie was less of a pain, he'd have been huge.
Carmine, Tony Franklin and Vinnie Vincent would have been pretty amazing. I wonder who would sing.
Yeah, I wouldn't trust VV as far as I could spit him. I saw the two final VVI shows, and the other guys were just waiting to dump him because Chrysalis gave them the remainder of his contract.
Obviously, musicians are weirder than most. But VV has always taken things too far; weird doesn’t mean you get to lack integrity or treat others like crap.
I like Carmine
Anyone hoping for a VV comeback needs to watch him jamming at a pre-KISS Cruise gig, playing with a very talented cover band
Vinnie simply could not do a fucking thing.
25 minutes he stood there, played some basic chords, zero shredding.
He was very much welcomed with open arms.
I absolutely would've went if I was anywhere near it.
He is legendary.
But he can't play anymore.
Four By Fate is the name of the band he's with.
Vinessa wasn’t as bad as you say.
Big fan, but the show's theme song seems far too calm for these hard rock/metal interviews.
I like the theme song . It’s dark ! Would you happen to know the title ? I looked under fool of fate but can’t seem to find it . Thanks
@UCulyY-gey2Vjju9LhlQAHjw Dark🤣 The world ain't dark enough?? Fuck that pussy devil shit. Metal fans😂
According to Gene, Vinny never signed the contract.
Yeah, Robert Fleischman has said similar things. Questionable things have been done by Mr. Vincent in the past, such as tricking a 19 yo Goran Edman into coming to the States… only to keep him locked up in studio, for an album “Pyro messiah” which never ended being released. And also I never understood why Vinnie hates Dana Strum & Mark Slaughter the way he does.
Because they went on to have success without Victoria.
Writing Burning bridges about him didn't help
That Goran from yngwie? I love that guy. His voice is not that distinctive but he has good chops.
The record label gave them his contract
Vinnie's problem was that he was a great talent yet convinced he was godlike.
Isn’t that Gene as well?
@@paulhaynes561 Gene has an ego that would dwarf the Statue of Liberty, but i don't think he had any delusions of grandeur where his music was concerned.
Gene will boast he’s “the richest rock star ever/the most laid rock star ever” as opposed to “the most talented rock star ever”- he is a massive egotist but not delusional.
I remember Paul Stanley saying in his book that Vinnie was a great talent, but he didn't know how to self-edit his songwriting.
TheJohnnyCotts - That's called, "Kisstory written by the victor."
from what i have seen on the Kiss Kruise and Atlanta , i don't think VV has his chops up.
I think dropping out is too much for this kind of player . He played guitar like guitar was an adreniline high, and it is all encompassing, i think he is beyond it and calmed down .
i don't like saying that, but VV recorded some of the sickest guitar jams ever on Guitarmageddon, a ledgend . He was driven to create and it nearly destroyed him .
i listen to his work in awe, because as far out in reckless abandon some of it is he had the focus to produce, and edit himself as the sickest metal guitar player ever, and it is even more amazing he could calmly slow down and explain the mechanics of what made him tick
It's Spinal Tap lyrics music, most of these bands are Spinal Tap.
Vinnie Vincent. How is SHE doing great gal
Penis
👊
2:46 has to be the most bizarre looking bunch of guys
Even the term “guys” is stretching it...
The 80s were a strange time. SUPER homophobic... yet all the pop and rock stars looked like drag queens.
All these years later, and Vinnie still hasn't learned his lesson, still screws people over, and still charges outrageous sums for shit merchandise. He's got nobody to blame but himself for his failures in life.
Hibernated for 20 years and tried to make a comeback and couldn't play for shit.
Not quite sure he is in fact “blaming” anybody though…ya know? 🤷🏻♂️
Or NO merchandise. Didn't he once sell a boxed set or something? Charged an outrageous amount of money, and no one ever received it. And never refunded anyone.
Vinnie was all about his business handled correctly, Paul and Gene didn't like that
Vinnie would be great as Dr. Frankenfurter in a remake of Rocky Horror Picture Show.
As strange as Tim Curry was in The Rocky Horror Picture Show...I'd still pick Tim Curry to hang out with. Ain't no way in HADES I'd ever hang out with Vinnie Vincent. He's a true loser! And-If what Carmine Appice is saying here is true, then Vinnie's a thief, too!
I've jammed with both Vinnie and Carmine.
Both great
Carmine came out of the chute with drum sticks in hand. A natural talent
Vinnie had to work for it.
Not knocking Vinnie, but Carmine was something else
Everything was his idea, he began everything popular, he is the last drop of water on the desert....he has a big big ego and a loose tounge.
Car-mean-aih Up-pea-chaih the right italian pronounciation.
Carmin's interviews are always great, brutally honest. VV great talent but 👎👎 person
You know what, how Vinnie was in the past is in the god damn past. I am so sick of people talking shit. He isn’t that person anymore. He is such a nice guy. People making fun of him for who he is today. What? He gained weight. He always wore make up and always had bangs. I want to see you hacks pick up a guitar and play 1/4 as good as Vinnie. Side note King Cobra sucked, Bullet boys sucked!!! Pussy bands!
Amen, no one is perfect and I am sure he fighting some inner demons and he seems like a very humble person and I wish him the best, Eric and Vinnie saved KISS.
Hi Vinnie! 😊
Isn't it Ap-puh-cee?
Depends who you ask. Carmine Appice says it one way, Vinny Appice says it the other way. Which is odd considering they're brothers.
I bet Thanksgiving dinner with their family is lots of fun.
Always complaining
Vinnie's playing back in the mid 80's was just a circle jerk of puking out notes as fast as he could. No emotion or restraint at all. Besides that, how do you go from being able to play like Vinnie could, and knowing music theory to now looking at a guitar like it's a foreign object?
Vinny's drumming on mob rules is great
Why do all guitarists need "restraint"? Shit gets fucking boring after awhile. I like that he did what he wanted. Not everyone wants to be "Gary Moore" or Page
@@aliceflores812 Like I said, there was nothing to his solos but a bunch of garbage. Listen to Boyz Are Gonna Rock. The solo in it is just puke. Everything he did sounded the same
This guy was wonderful in the Village People.... that was him right?😂
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King Kobra, VV Invasion & Bullet Boys...three of the worst and most infamous bands from the gutters of glam metal. "KK III" it´s an atrocious album. Great work with Ozzy & the Blue Murder album tho.
Yep, that picture of KK is just cringe worthy with their teased up hair.
@@stevegrimm6936 Watch their music videos from that time at your own risk lmao 😖🤣
Carmine only played live with Ozzy. Never recorded an album.
@@MikeB-oo9bj I know. I didn't specify what he did with Ozzy. Should I?
@Dust Devil "weren't THAT bad" you're right bro. They weren't totally terrible lol
I still have their first two albums. I used to listen a lot "Freakshow". Now I can't listen any of both. I always considered Bullet Boys a sub-par band like thousands of many others back in the day. Bands orchestrated by labels & producers not musicians. Who wants to listen a Van Halen wannabe? They had Ted Templeman but not an Eddie..Sweda it's a decent guitarist & Torien it's an screaming cat compared with the mighty Roth. That's the reason why they didn't succeed their first (and successful debut). "Freakshow" had a lot of potential but ruined by a TOO all over the top vocals IMHO.
Appice’s name is pronounced “Ap-a-see.” Not ‘a piece’
Carmine has explained it publicly that he chose the pronunciation A-piece, leading to confusion when his brother chose the Italian pronunciation. Just Google it.
Carmine is the only drummer arrogant enough to show up to a Bonham tribute show Annnd...not have learned the drum part to the song he played. True story.
Bonham cited Carmine as an influence actually
@@flyingburritobro68 Did I say anything about influences? Answer is no.
@@Mikey_Sea No, but burrito brother's point does add perspective. Would EVH be expected to learn Lynch and DeMartini licks?
@@lanceraustin At a tribute show? Not if you have any class.
You would at least expect them to know the form of the song, no? Which he didn't, Btw.
@@Mikey_Sea - We get it. You hate Carmine. Noted.
Kiss got rid of Ace for being unstable and then went and replaced him with Vinny? Ace's craziness came from partying to hard and making bad decisions. With Vinny, its all intentional.
Just imagine that Kiss is 5 piece band with both Ace and Vinnie.. what would happened if those two together in a band?
Carmine is a great drummer and certainly a legend.. but he's got a habit of laying claim to inventing or influencing everyone in rock and roll for the last 50 years! He claims he taught John Bonham the bass drum triplets Bonham was famous for. He claims he got Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart back together. Here he is claiming the Bullet Boys fame was due to them ripping him off.
It's true that bulletboys were doing a few songs from King Kobra like "Kissin kitty", there's a King Kobra demo of that song with Marq Torien on vocals and Mick Swede on guitar. Perhaps Marq, Mick and Lonnie wrote that song and Carmine has nothing to do with it except play drums on it
@Donnie (guitar tech) Ian Paice has said Purple were influenced by Fudge when they first started but Paice hasn't said Carmine himself was an influence on his own playing. Paice was mainly influenced by the jazz greats.
@Donnie (guitar tech) I hear you- Carmine 's pedigree as a hard rock/heavy metal drummer who's been around isn't surpassed by many; he got kicked out of Ozzy's band because Sharon wanted a cut of the side projects he was doing (things he had built up before his tenure with Ozzy) and he was "too big" for a simple "drummer" by her rationale. Her exact words to him were "you need your own band"..She didn't like band members having tooooo much celebrity status. His impact on the genre will probably never be fully appreciated because he never had a long tenure in any larger than life band. As for VV he turned a brief tenure in KISS into a shit show-he could have probably rode that out for the rest of his life, not getting mega-rich maybe but living comfortably off it with a little effort. Instead he screwed a lot of people with cancelled gigs, signed guitars that were never shipped and a bunch of other stuff.
He loves to hear his own voice. "I replaced Tommy Aldridge in Ozzy's band because he had bad timing." -Carmine Appice. "Sharon thought I was too popular for the band and fired me and hire Tommy Aldridge." -also Carmine Appice.
So they replaced him with the guy with the bad timing that he originally replaced?!?!?! Got it.
I had the opportunity to meet him twice through a very famous L.A. studio drummer and I had/have ZERO interest. He doesn't impress me in the least.
@Donnie (guitar tech) when you are full of yourself and love to hear your own voice, all the stuff you named gets overlooked. Go look at Vinnie Colaiuta's discography and watch a video of him talk and be interviewed. Humble, nice guy with no ego. Carmine should take a lesson from his in that area.
Wasn't Vinnie Vincent the guy who for a minute back in the day used a multi-neck guitar with necks going in both directions?
Whoever it was, they definitely stole that idea from Carmine Apiece.
I think you're thinking of Michael Angelo.
@@daviddogstar3307 thanks, that sounds right!
So Michael Angelo stole the idea from Carmine lol.
Ouch.
Vinnie Vincent is a biological man . “Let them fight” 😂
So Vinnie is kinda like Carmine…
Not even close.
hhhmm, I haven't heard the "hooker" bit before, that sounds second hand or third hand. Diane worked for the company that administers my publishing.
I winced at that part. That's a vicious rumor to repeat, and I hope Carmine heard it from a highly reliable source.
It's at least plausible. Vinnie's first wife AnnMarie was murdered in 1998, after they'd divorced. Google pulled up multiple news stories mentioning that she was working as a part-time escort at the time.
She was from Hartford so it was a news story here in Connecticut. It was reported she was an escort at the time.
app-uh-see
Lol. Carmine Appice is calling someone a trouble maker. 🙄
Met Carmine at a BBQ at Eric Singer’s house (yeah, I know…name dropping, but it’s true) and he’s a cool guy. And I later met his brother Vinnie, who was even nicer.
the hair...
Looks like the Vinnie "problem" was triggered by financial insecurity via Gene and Paul.
I met Vinnie Vincent at a kiss convention and he was asking for 2 dollars for an autograph. I declined to pay
I don’t blame you. The $2 was better put getting a hot dog. LOL
THAT is funny. "I'm super rock star guy, my signature is worth money!" OK how much? "Two bucks."
We liked the bullet boys? I laughed at all of that.
All he has is a unique pentatonic run. THATS IT PERIOD DOUCHE VINCENT
Vinnie Vincent always be 2nd to ace freely especially in make up.
But as far as players go in Kiss, Bruce Kulick will always be number 1 ! Bruce is the best by far !
@@Angelo-fo8de LOL you know Ace is the GOAT of KISS.
Damn, NO ONE likes Vinnie Vincent!!
This interview sounds like Vinnie belongs in prison cell
Vinnie Vincent dresses like a woman now. There's that.
"Now" lol
Did you actually watch the video? Carmine was in full drag queen mode through the entire 1980s and beyond himself.
vinnie like a great draft pick that had a good season or 2 but a bust overall...
Rod Stewart said he had to fire Carmine for health reasons. He said “he makes me sick “.
Vinnie lol,, what a clown that guy is. Those VV records were horrible. Guitar diarrhea.
His last name is pronounced "Ahh-Pee-Chee"
Not according to him at 3:58…
@@lukeotron I swear I read that long ago in a Guitar magazine I owned? Everyone pronounces it as it looks rather than properly. I'm wrong I guess?
@@NameThatSong1 Carmine's brother Vinny, also an accomplished and sort-of-famous drummer, pronounces it the way you wrote it. Carmine has always pronounced it "apiece." Why, I do not know.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 I remember Vinnie was also in many bands/projects. Yes, he was not as famous as his brother. I imagine Carmine just got use to everyone pronouncing his last name wrong?
@@NameThatSong1 yep. Both brothers have been around the rock'n'roll block many times.
LOL. Carmine looks NOTHING now like any of these pics...
Vinnie looks odder then usual
Saw king cobra open for kiss every one do the cobra ...they sucked I was embarrassed for them ...October 86 Maple leaf gardens
+1 King Poser.
I must have seen them on the same tour but in Springfield Mass They were corny as hell. Telling everyone to do the cobra WTF not cool at all. I always considered bands like King Cobra to be more of a joke than Spinal Tap sad thing was they were serious.