CAT Episode 134 – Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge/Cactus)

CAT Episode 134 - Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge/Cactus) Ray White 33:20

Carmine Appice is a legendary drummer that’s influenced many of rocks’ most famous drummers. He launched on the music scene back in 1967 as a founding member of the ground breaking band, Vanilla Fudge. His storied career included launching Cactus, Beck/Bogert/Appice and playing with Rod Stewart on 4 of his albums. You can find Carmine playing in numerous other bands and on nearly 100 albums. In September of 2014, award-winning program director Ray White sat down with Carmine at his hotel to talk about several of Carmine’s recording projects and his future plans at that time. His latest albums are Guitar Zeus 25th Anniversary, Tightrope (Cactus) and Vanilla Zeppelin. In our showcase segment, we feature a musician known as “Slowhand,” – Eric Clapton. His latest release is a live album, Nothing But The Blues, which features some of the blues’ greatest songs, recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco in 1994 during his “From The Cradle” tour. Eric had won a Grammy award for Best Traditional Blues Album the following year. This episode gives you two legendary musicians whose careers were heavily influenced by the blues. The best of blues rock on The CAT!

Ray White Managing Director, Classic Artists Today

Ray's passion for music and the musicians, started as a youth listening to transistor radios under the covers at bedtime. The bands and performers he liked, he followed throughout their career. In 2005 he was fed up with the evolution of a majority of the music the radio stations were playing and began investigating the bands he grew up listening to in the 1960's, 70's and 80's. Radio wasn't playing any of those band's "new" songs, just the "classic" hits. Researching the industry for a year, Ray launched Classic Artists Today syndicated radio show - featuring "new" songs by "classic" artists and included interviews and classic tracks too. The show was carried by several dozen radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. Featuring Rock/Pop musicians and bands, Ray and the show won several awards from New Music Weekly magazine. With the success of these shows, he launched Coool CAT syndicated radio show, 5 years later, featuring Soul/R&B/Smooth Jazz/Blues performers and bands. In 2017, Ray starting producing his show in a 30-minute podcast format. Today, you can hear his work at Sittin' In With The CAT and Sittin' In With The Coool CAT. The legacy continues!