Carmine Appice

Carmine Appice is one of those drummers who basically helped invent what hard rock drumming sounds like, and I think he's criminally underrated in mainstream conversations about the greats. Growing up in Staten Island and cutting his teeth with Vanilla Fudge in the late '60s, he was playing with a heaviness and thunder that most drummers hadn't even imagined yet. Then came Cactus, then the legendary Beck, Bogert & Appice — a power trio so loud and ferocious it felt like the walls were going to cave in. His work with Rod Stewart brought him to a wider audience, but the real Appice faithful know the man is a force of nature behind a kit. Getting inducted into both the Classic Drummer and Modern Drummer Halls of Fame in back-to-back years (2013 and 2014) felt like the world finally catching up to what serious rock fans already knew.

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Name (English)

Carmine Appice

Name (Japanese)

カーマイン・アピス

Reading

かーまいん・あぴす

Born

December 15, 1946 (age 79)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog

Origin

Staten Island, New York, United States

Occupation

drummer / musician / composer

High school

New Utrecht High School

• Official sitehttps://www.carmineappice.net
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carmineappice/
• Xhttps://x.com/carmineappice1
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine%20Appice
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%94%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q361167

Tags

• New York
• drummer
• musician
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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