![]() 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. He stated that "nobody could accuse Vanilla Fudge of bad taste in their repertoire" and that most of the tracks "share a common structure of a disjointed warm-up jam, a Hammond-heavy dirge of harmonized vocals at the center, and a final flat-out jam." However, he also said that "each song still works as a time capsule of American psychedelia.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. Reception Professional ratings Review scoresĪllmusic's Paul Collins retrospectively rated Vanilla Fudge four out of five stars some time in the 2000s. An edited version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" was released as a single and also charted. Parts of the original stereo LP were actually mixed in mono, including the entire track "You Keep Me Hangin' On". The album was Vanilla Fudge's most successful, peaking at #6 on the Billboard album charts and number #8 in Finland in November 1967. Released in summer 1967 as Atco 33-224/mono, SD 33-224/stereo, it consists entirely of half-speed covers and three short original instrumental compositions. Vanilla Fudge is the debut studio album by the American psychedelic rock band Vanilla Fudge.
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