Carmine Appice’s 1976 Realistic Rock Drumset Welcome to the first installment of “Donn Bennett’s Drum Vault.” As a dealer and collector of rare and vintage drums, I’ve had the good fortune to work with many of the greatest drummers of our time. In this column, I’ll write about the legendary drums and drummers that I’ve encountered in my thirty-plus years in the vintage drum business. It’s impossible to overstate Carmine Appice’s influence on the drum world in the 1970s. Between his distinctive in-your-face playing style, high-profile gigs, enormously popular instructional books, and exhaustive clinic schedule, it was virtually impossible for a drummer not to feel his presence. Appice was the featured drummer with Rod Stewart, the Jeff Beck Group, and Beck, Bogert & Appice, which were some of the most popular rock acts of the decade. You couldn’t miss him behind his massive drumset, with his name emblazoned across his […]