Reviewed by Marie Miele Miller
Released: 1981 Carmine Appice Carmine Appice Genre: Ego Rock Rating: 2 out of 5 Highlights: Keep On Rolling Blue Cafe Drum City Rockers (Ballad Of Drum City Surfer Girls) Lowlight: Be My Baby 1. Keep on Rockin - a catchy tune, forgettable lyrics, major beats. 2. Drum City Rocker - one long drum solo. 3. Blue Café - a catchy tune, but it feels like it’s a rip off of Simple Man - its wants to be a Skynyrd tune, but doesn’t quite get there. Be My Baby - the spectre of the ubiquitous P. Spector again! (see review of Rachel Sweet) A vanity album if there ever was one, with songs like Drums Drums Drums, Drum City Rocker, and an instrumental organ (?!!) rendition of The Stones' Paint it Black, you know your aren't going to get sonnets that are set to well crafted melodies. Don’t listen to this if you want some peace or need to sleep. Appice is a big name in rock and a drumming authority, whose voice is reminiscent of Aldo Nova. Songs are co-written and a little like Starship's We Built This City, if you cathch my drift. A song in the mix is called Am I Losing You - and the answer is, Yes.
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