![]() Richard and Bruce were doing their thing, with Mark trying to film it, but the rest of us filtered out into the hallway, laughing our asses off.”Īppice, looking back, points out that “you have to understand that those days were so different. Sometimes that happens when you’re confronted with such a freaky scene. ![]() “She got so into it, and it was so shocking to us, that we all started hysterically laughing. “We had the door open and there were so many people in the room when it was happening, but she didn’t care,” Appice tells Classic Rock. The original group decided to take their leave when Cole and Wayne shoved the thrashing animal inside her. All the while, Stein’s camera was rolling. Before too long the groupie lay naked on the bed, “bucking and screaming with pleasure”, as Cole started whipping her with the mud shark. The gathering was swiftly gatecrashed by the boisterous party from next door, namely Cole, Stein, Zep roadie Clive Coulson and Fudge road manager, Bruce Wayne. Appice had previously told her that Mark Stein had camera gear, prompting her to rush in and declare: “I want to make a movie with you guys.” She was, noted the drummer, very high. The following afternoon she called in at John Paul Jones’s room at the Edgewater, where Jones, Appice, Vanilla Fudge bassist Tim Bogert, plus Plant and wife Maureen, were hanging out. According to Appice, he’d hooked up with the girl a day earlier, during which time she’d performed oral sex on him in his limo. If anything, this report is more disturbing than Cole’s. He doesn’t have a clear memory of it and he’s prone to exaggeration.” The other major account is by Richard Cole, who, by his own admission, was off his head most of the time. He can remember things in excruciating detail and is an unusually fertile source. Despite leading in some ways a dissolute life, Carmine has never really been a big drug-taker or big drinker, so his memory’s intact. He was sitting right on the side of the bed while it was going on and he wanted to share it. “First of all, a lot of people thought it didn’t happen, that it was just an apocryphal thing,” says Ian Gittins, Appice’s co-author on Stick It! “But what Carmine has done is give it complete chapter and verse. It’s a testament to the salacious appeal of ‘The Mud Shark Incident’ that it’s already elicited plenty of column inches in the American tabloids. Carmine Appice circa 1970 (Image credit: Carmine Appice)Īll of which makes Carmine Appice’s account especially intriguing.
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