The Maine Edge: What prompted the idea for your “Guitar Zeus” project?Ĭarmine Appice: It was really funny how it happened. On “Guitar Zeus,” the concept was simple: Invite many of the world’s most renowned players to perform on a track with a core band featuring Appice, Tony Franklin (The Firm, Kenny Wayne Shepherd) on bass and Kelly Keeling on vocals, keyboards and rhythm guitar.Īs Appice explains in the following interview, once he’d received commitments from Brian May of Queen, Ted Nugent, and Ty Tabor and Doug Pinnick of the band King’s X, he knew the rest of the “Guitar Zeus” lineup would fall into place. That was followed by four years as a member of Rod Stewart’s band where he co-wrote two of the singer’s biggest hits, “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” and “Young Turks.”Īppice played drums on KISS guitarist Paul Stanley’s solo debut, he toured with Ozzy Osbourne, and founded the heavy metal band King Kobra with whom he’s currently working up a new project. He then spent three years with the brilliant and unpredictable Jeff Beck in the rock trio Beck, Bogert & Appice. When the psychedelic rock and soul band Vanilla Fudge first split, Appice formed Cactus with bassist Tim Bogert and guitarist Jim McCarty (of Mitch Ryder’s Detroit Wheels). When it comes to iconic rock guitarists, it would probably be easier to list the ones Appice hasn’t played with.

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