![]() 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. And an unqualified success.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. I'll bet it would be a brave new adventure for The Fudge. This leads me to the point of wondering if they have it in them to push the boundaries even further and tackle something "newer." I would love to see what the could do with Nirvana which was always filled with excitement, drama and poetry. ![]() "Spirt of 67" was a more tapered sound but equally compelling. The bus were excellent and Tepper went on to score hits with Benny Mardones, Pat Benetar and others before establishig himself with Sylvestor Stalone in "Rocky" with the signature "No Easy Way Out". A local band called Unchartered Bus was opening for them and it so happened that Mark Stein and Robert Tepper of the Bus were from Bayonne NJ. I SAW THE FUDGE ay back in the winter of 67 or 68 at Marist High School in Bayonne NJ after the release of their first album.
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