Totally Driven Radio, the weekly radio podcast heard live every Thursday night from 8 - 11 pm Est time on the Totaally Driven Entertainment Radio Network, hosted by Bay Ragni and Nick Wilkinson covers the world of sports and entertainment each week, as well as bringing you celebrity guests interviews.
This week Bay got to interview both Joe Lynn Turner, and Carmine Appice which lead to our 2 hour Rated X Special, the new band with both Joe and Carmine, where we played cuts from their Rated X album, and their interviews.
Carmine talks to us for almost 50 minutes, and discusses these topics and more!!
**His Rod Stewart Experience Band
**his passion for cars, some cars he has owned, and the next car he plans to buy
**talked about some old times playing the Philly Spectrum
**How his new band Rated X was formed
**He names some people that were supposed to be in Rated X, but were too busy to commit
**How guitarist Karl Cochran Rated X came down sick, and couldn’t finish the record
**The recording process of the Rated X album, how they were never in studio at same time
**If Rated X, will be playing songs from Carmine, Tony & Joe’s past
**He would love to play drums with Zeppelin, The Police
**How his drum style is more like John Bonham, than Jason Bonham’s
**How Sharon Osbourne fired him from Ozzy’s band, for being too popular
**If he ever thought about having Jake E. Lee for Rated X: He said “Jake is out there”
**He tells a story of how Jake wouldn’t get on the phone with Carmine
**His thoughts on Dave Grohl
**His book Realistic Rock Drum Method and how it is being downloaded for free