Carmine Appice Net Worth

What Is Carmine Appice's Net Worth?

Carmine Appice is an American drummer and percussionist who has a net worth of $4 million. Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 15, 1946, Carmine Appice is best known for his rock style drumming for Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, and Beck, Bogert & Appice. He authored the best-selling 1972 drum instruction book "The Realistic Rock Drum Method" (later retitled "The Ultimate Realistic Rock Drum Method") and the 2016 memoir "Stick It!: My Life of Sex, Drums & Rock 'n' Roll," and he is fluent in the genres of hard rock, psychedelic rock, blues-rock, glam metal, and heavy metal.

Carmine has been affiliated with labels such as Atlantic Records, Atco Records, Epic Records, and Repertoire and has been actively drumming since 1966. Appice has been associated with artists such as Ted Nugent, Stanley Clarke, Pink Floyd, and Ozzy Osbourne. In 2006, he formed SLAMM, which has been described as "Stomp on steroids." Carmine's younger brother, Vinny Appice, is also a drummer who has worked with Black Sabbath, Dio, and Heaven & Hell. In 2014, Carmine was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame. Drummer magazine has referred to Appice as "the creator of heavy rock drumming as we know it."

Career

Appice is a classically trained musician, and in his early years, he was influenced by jazz drummers such as Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. He first gained attention in the late '60s when he was drumming for the psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge. Carmine played on five Vanilla Fudge albums, then he and bassist Tim Bogert left the band to form Cactus, a blues rock quartet also featuring guitarist Jim McCarty and vocalist Rusty Day. Carmine and Tim later left Cactus to join guitarist Jeff Beck in the trio Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1976, Appice became a member of Rod Stewart's backing band, and he co-wrote songs such as "Young Turks," "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?," "Better off Dead," and "My Girl." Carmine played drums on the 1976 KGB albums "KGB" and "Motion" and on the track "Take Me Away (Together as One)" on Paul Stanley's 1978 self-titled solo album. He has recorded with numerous artists, including Pink Floyd, Stanley Clarke, King Cobra, and Ted Nugent.

Appice toured with Ozzy Osbourne in 1983. He was later fired from Osbourne's backing group because Ozzy's wife/manager, Sharon, didn't like him. In a 2018 interview with Blabbermouth.net, Carmine's brother, Vinny, stated:

"Sharon despises Carmine. Ozzy likes Carmine — Ozzy likes both of us — but Sharon doesn't like Carmine because he played with Ozzy and she didn't like the way things were turning out, so she kind of fired him, and then Carmine was able to sue, so she definitely didn't like that."

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Appice and Bogert performed on the 1995 Pappo album "Caso Cerrado," and in the late '90s, the duo toured Japan with Char in the group CB&A, which released a live album in 2000. That year, Carmine and Tim also formed the trio DBA with Rick Derringer and reformed Vanilla Fudge. In 2006, Appice formed SLAMM, a drum ensemble in which he performed with four young drummers. SLAMM played at Drum magazine's music festival, and in 2008, they were voted the runner-up in the Percussion Ensemble category in Drum magazine poll. SLAMM also performed at the Modern Drummer festival and appeared on a DVD recording of the event. Carmine has released several albums in his "Guitar Zeus" series, which features guitarists such as Brian May, Richie Sambora, and Jennifer Batten.

Appice played on the track "Stand!" on the 2011 Sly Stone album "I'm Back! Family & Friends," and from 2011 to 2012, he performed "Drum Wars" shows with his brother, Vinny. Around that time, he also played with a reformation of King Kobra, performing on the albums "King Kobra" (2011) and "King Kobra II" (2013). In 2016, Carmine published the book "Stick It!: My Life of Sex, Drums & Rock 'n' Roll," which he co-wrote with Ian Gittins. Rod Stewart wrote the foreword to the book. The memoir has been described as "one of the most extraordinary and outrageous rock-and-roll biographies of our time." In 2021, Appice released the album "Energy Overload" under the name Appice Perdomo Project, which is a collaboration with Fernando Perdomo. Carmine has also performed on the Blue Murder albums "Blue Murder" (1989) and "Nothin' But Trouble" (1993), the Mother's Army albums "Mothers Army" (1993) and "Planet Earth" (1997), and the Pearl albums "Pearl" (1997) and "4 Infinity" (1998). He formed the duo Travers & Appice with guitarist Pat Travers, and they released the albums "It Takes A Lot of Balls" (2004), "Live at the House of Blues" (2005), and "Bazooka" (2006).

Personal Life

Carmine has served on the Honorary Board of Directors of the nonprofit organization Music Will (formerly known as Little Kids Rock), which gives free instruments and lessons to children who go to less privileged schools. Appice and his longtime girlfriend, Leslie Gold, live in New York. Gold is a radio personally known as The Radio Chick.

Awards and Honors

Appice has been inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame, Classic Drummer Hall of Fame, Guitar Center Drum-Legends Hall of Fame, and Hollywood's Rockwalk. He received Modern Drummer's Editors' Award (lifetime achievement) for Best Rock Drummer and Sabian Cymbals' Best Rock Drummer lifetime achievement award. May 23, 1981, was declared "Carmine Appice Day" by then-Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley in recognition of Carmine's educational and charitable work.

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