Nate is Carmen a piece of Rod Stewart, Vanilla Fudge, and many more. You're listening to The Vinyl Guide.

Oh, well, thank you there, Carmine. And hey, everyone, it's Nate. Welcome to episode 313 of the Vinyl Guide,

the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. And this week, we have an absolute legend of music and rock and roll on the show,

Mr. Carmine at piece, who's sharing

all sorts of stories with us today. Carmine's going to talk about his time with an influence

on Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, the influence of the band Cactus on Van Halen, and the

conversations he had with Mr. Eddie Van Halen himself on that very topic.

Carmine also talks about playing and smoking with Jimmy Hendricks.

Being behind the kit for Pink Floyd is dealings with Amit Erdogan, Sharon Osborne, and even the mob.

Lots to cover here today, everyone.

This is a phenomenal conversation with one of the absolute

legends of modern music and one of the most highly influential individuals of rock and roll.

And before we get too far along, I got to let you guys know a few things. First off,

Vanilla Fudge has a brand new single out, Stop in the Name of Love, a Supremes cover dropped some 50 plus years after the Fudge dropped the original Supremes cover that started their career.

That, of course, was Keep Me Hanging On, and that was at the start of their career.

This latest single is, again, the original four members of the Fudge in their final recording

with Tim Bogart and you can hear that single online I'll link to the video in

this episode page or of course you can go to golden robot records.com and enjoy

this monumental track and next up you can also go to cactus rocks.net and check

out Cactus's recent album Tightrope.

And of course, Carmineapiece.net leads to all sorts of interesting stuff, including

the pre-order of the Guitar Zeus vinyl box set featuring tracks with Carmine playing

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