he and his brother carmine grew up
playing drums together and now they’re
both world famous at their craft hi I’m
Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Vinny Appice E so give us an idea
who you first came to follow music as
your path well I grew up with an older
brother carmine who played drums and in
the early years he used to rehearse in
the house and this is in Brooklyn New
York with his band and I was a little
kid and I would watch them rehearse and
I was amazed by all the wires and the
gear and the equipment then the music
and here the live band right in the room
so that was very influential and like on
a young person as I think I was eight or
nine years old so that kind of got the
bug going
and what kind of music did you grow up
listening to well see when I grew up
coal mine was eventually added a house
he was on the road and I listened to
like Hendrix Zeppelin panco Blue Cheer
they also listen to Billy Cobham I’m
Buddy Rich you know more trauma oriented
stuff and actually I remember when Led
Zeppelin came over calmly and had the
first record first Led Zeppelin album
and he goes he gave it to me he goes
here this drum was pretty good check him
out
it’s how long ago that was that was an
understatement
so gave me that album I went wow what is
this
how do you describe your signature drums
in well my signature drum scent would be
powerful heavy solid kind of steady but
then with with technique in it because I
went for lessons and humming on the
technical side to not just playing off
the off of the cuff like so to speak and
I play with butt end of the sticks so
good a certain sound that way it’s a
little fatter you know but a lot of
people describe as if they always tell
me why you did that role I didn’t think
you were gonna make it back in to pull
it back a lot and that’s when playing
with Sabbath it’s a lot of the Sabbath
stuff slow and do me you know so you
learn to play that way but pretty heavy
described it being loud
you’ve obviously collaborated with a lot
of people worked with a lot of bands how
does that affect your creative process
the good thing was I kept my eyes open
when I worked with different people I
mean when I started I actually worked
with John Lennon a little bit and did
number of things with with John and I
had kept like just watch what he did
listened and then I went on to play with
Rick Derringer and a same thing I kept
my eyes open I’d never had an attitude
about anything with anybody and said
well no I don’t want to do it that way I
listened to what they said okay that
makes sense try that things if they
suggested things on the drums so luckily
I kept my eyes and ears open the whole
time learned especially from Ronnie
James Dio who produced all the do albums
went in listened and certain things I
didn’t agree with but I thought I went
along with it and then they could see
why he wanted to do things certain ways
Sabbath guys were legends you know let’s
see what they did you know so I always
learned from what my experiences were
what was some of your favorite
collaborative experiences you know they
were all different than unique no the
John Lennon thing was pretty cool
you know now that you look back at it
time I was a little kid and I just
thought this is the beginning of my
career I got to work with you know
legendary people which I’m fortunate and
appreciate having that opportunity
Black Sabbath became the cornerstone of
metal and heavy rock and and I got to
play with him you know and I got to play
alone with Ozzy with Ronnie James Dio
and I got to play with tio on his own
and be part of music that was important
to Ronnie you know so it was a great
experience for me
so tell us about what you’re working on
now now I got a bank will kill devil
he’ll and it’s myself Rex Brown from
pintura on bass and two new guys do we
brag on vocals and Mark Savon on guitar
they’re from LA and it’s a cool band
sounds like a cross between Sabbath
balance and chain a little Zeppelin
thrown in albums on SPV records comes
out of May May 22nd I believe so we’re
gonna be out made doing some dates and
it’s a cool really cool band really it’s
heavy but it’s got a lot of hooks a lot
of melodic vocals on it but but still in
a dark side no really good stuff so
you’re judging a competition for young
up-and-coming bands so what’s the most
important piece of advice that you can
offer them to be a band you gotta listen
to each other sometimes people who don’t
listen to each other on stage so you can
tell if a band is really playing
together well you know if there’s
certain things that the guitar player
does the drummer might pick up on so you
know it’s everybody got to listen to
each other but it’s got to be open about
you know opinions and stuff be a team
player basically that’s probably the
most important thing be a team player
rather than have some sort of an
attitude and then you don’t get much out
of people like that when everybody can
contribute and everybody’s don’t think
they’re gonna get stepped on and with an
opinion sway you get the best out of
people got a place to anything yeah
that’s just a bit yeah yeah awesome
thank you very much thank you
playing drums together and now they’re
both world famous at their craft hi I’m
Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Vinny Appice E so give us an idea
who you first came to follow music as
your path well I grew up with an older
brother carmine who played drums and in
the early years he used to rehearse in
the house and this is in Brooklyn New
York with his band and I was a little
kid and I would watch them rehearse and
I was amazed by all the wires and the
gear and the equipment then the music
and here the live band right in the room
so that was very influential and like on
a young person as I think I was eight or
nine years old so that kind of got the
bug going
and what kind of music did you grow up
listening to well see when I grew up
coal mine was eventually added a house
he was on the road and I listened to
like Hendrix Zeppelin panco Blue Cheer
they also listen to Billy Cobham I’m
Buddy Rich you know more trauma oriented
stuff and actually I remember when Led
Zeppelin came over calmly and had the
first record first Led Zeppelin album
and he goes he gave it to me he goes
here this drum was pretty good check him
out
it’s how long ago that was that was an
understatement
so gave me that album I went wow what is
this
how do you describe your signature drums
in well my signature drum scent would be
powerful heavy solid kind of steady but
then with with technique in it because I
went for lessons and humming on the
technical side to not just playing off
the off of the cuff like so to speak and
I play with butt end of the sticks so
good a certain sound that way it’s a
little fatter you know but a lot of
people describe as if they always tell
me why you did that role I didn’t think
you were gonna make it back in to pull
it back a lot and that’s when playing
with Sabbath it’s a lot of the Sabbath
stuff slow and do me you know so you
learn to play that way but pretty heavy
described it being loud
you’ve obviously collaborated with a lot
of people worked with a lot of bands how
does that affect your creative process
the good thing was I kept my eyes open
when I worked with different people I
mean when I started I actually worked
with John Lennon a little bit and did
number of things with with John and I
had kept like just watch what he did
listened and then I went on to play with
Rick Derringer and a same thing I kept
my eyes open I’d never had an attitude
about anything with anybody and said
well no I don’t want to do it that way I
listened to what they said okay that
makes sense try that things if they
suggested things on the drums so luckily
I kept my eyes and ears open the whole
time learned especially from Ronnie
James Dio who produced all the do albums
went in listened and certain things I
didn’t agree with but I thought I went
along with it and then they could see
why he wanted to do things certain ways
Sabbath guys were legends you know let’s
see what they did you know so I always
learned from what my experiences were
what was some of your favorite
collaborative experiences you know they
were all different than unique no the
John Lennon thing was pretty cool
you know now that you look back at it
time I was a little kid and I just
thought this is the beginning of my
career I got to work with you know
legendary people which I’m fortunate and
appreciate having that opportunity
Black Sabbath became the cornerstone of
metal and heavy rock and and I got to
play with him you know and I got to play
alone with Ozzy with Ronnie James Dio
and I got to play with tio on his own
and be part of music that was important
to Ronnie you know so it was a great
experience for me
so tell us about what you’re working on
now now I got a bank will kill devil
he’ll and it’s myself Rex Brown from
pintura on bass and two new guys do we
brag on vocals and Mark Savon on guitar
they’re from LA and it’s a cool band
sounds like a cross between Sabbath
balance and chain a little Zeppelin
thrown in albums on SPV records comes
out of May May 22nd I believe so we’re
gonna be out made doing some dates and
it’s a cool really cool band really it’s
heavy but it’s got a lot of hooks a lot
of melodic vocals on it but but still in
a dark side no really good stuff so
you’re judging a competition for young
up-and-coming bands so what’s the most
important piece of advice that you can
offer them to be a band you gotta listen
to each other sometimes people who don’t
listen to each other on stage so you can
tell if a band is really playing
together well you know if there’s
certain things that the guitar player
does the drummer might pick up on so you
know it’s everybody got to listen to
each other but it’s got to be open about
you know opinions and stuff be a team
player basically that’s probably the
most important thing be a team player
rather than have some sort of an
attitude and then you don’t get much out
of people like that when everybody can
contribute and everybody’s don’t think
they’re gonna get stepped on and with an
opinion sway you get the best out of
people got a place to anything yeah
that’s just a bit yeah yeah awesome
thank you very much thank you
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