‘The four of us disappeared into the bathroom, emerging butt-naked. Three years later, his band the Pigeons was signed to Atlantic Records, changed their name to Vanilla Fudge, and had a big hit with a cover of the Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hangin’ On.” “I would have a quickie with a girl in the back of the club, then another one would take me back to her apartment after the show.” “As the band started playing shows most evenings, it became normal to have a different chick every night of the week. By the following year, he claims to have slept with over 300 women. When he began playing with them at 17, he was a virgin. It was with this band, in 1964, that Appice learned the sexual power of rock. Appice and James - who would soon become Jimi Hendrix - became friends while getting high in a local prostitute’s apartment. One early band, Thursday’s Children, played dingy, junkie-filled blues clubs on the then-decrepit Upper West Side, where they were once booked to play with an outrageous young guitarist named Jimmy James. Redfernsīorn in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in 1946, Appice fell in love with the drums in his teens. Jimi and Zep Appice advertises his role as a member of the “Sex Police” while partying with Rod Stewart and Telly “Kojak” Savalas in 1980. In “Stick It!,” his new memoir, he makes it clear that having sex with groupies and trashing hotel rooms, often alongside the biggest rock stars of the era, was his raison d’être. Having begun his career in the ’60s, Appice relished rock ’n’ roll at its most depraved. Normally she would take one look at the 10 to 15 guys bursting into the room and leave of her own accord anyway.” Beds might get tipped over sometimes the chick would be thrown out of the room without her clothes. Once inside the room, they would “cause as much mayhem as possible. The group - consisting of Appice, Stewart and other members of Stewart’s band - would listen for anyone in the band or crew having sex and sabotage these encounters any way they could.Īfter donning their official “Sex Police” T-shirts, the crew would “charge down the hotel corridor to that person’s room, singing our theme song as we went: ‘Sex Police, we’re the Sex Police. 1 song, Rod Stewart’s “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” played with everyone from Jeff Beck to Pink Floyd befriended his idol, drum legend Buddy Rich and even, to hear him tell it, influenced Led Zeppelin.īut one of his stranger achievements was patrolling hotel hallways as a member of the “Sex Police.” Rock drummer Carmine Appice co-wrote a No.
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