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. 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.

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