According to Carmine Appice, Papa Roach tops Shinedown.
“I like — what was the name of that band? Oh, come on… Papa Roach,” the drummer said in an interview with Dayna’s Diner With Dayna Steele when asked if he’d pay to see any new artists live. I went to see them with… I have neighbors up the street here.”
He continued, “The kids are [a guitarist] and a drummer, and I helped the drummer kid out. And they were going to see Papa Roach and Shinedown. They had an extra ticket. They said, ‘You wanna go?’ I said, ‘Sure.’ They were all raving about Shinedown. For me, I thought Papa Roach was awesome. So I actually downloaded some of their songs on iTunes.”
Appice also reflected on today’s music scene when he sat down with Ted Nugent in an episode of ‘Spirit Campire.’ “I wanted to market it differently because [it has been] a blues rock band from the beginning,” the rocker said while discussing the new Cactus album, ‘Temple Of The Blues: Influences And Friends.’
He added, “I talked to the owner again, I said, ‘Look, we should market this as a blues record not a rock record because rock today is Taylor Swift.’ So he said, ‘Okay, let’s call it Temple Of Blues.’ I said, ‘Let’s add onto it ‘Influences & Friends,’ so then we change the vibe of the whole album cover and all that.'”
Later, in July 2024, while promoting the new record, Appice told Toilet Ov Hell he dislikes streaming music, where access matters more than ownership. He urged fans to avoid Spotify and buy music on iTunes instead.
The musician explained, “Keep pushing this album. That’s what we need. And keep telling people to buy it and don’t Spotify it. Buy it on iTunes. Buy it on Amazon. Because musicians get screwed on Spotify.”
“I will never, ever play a song on Spotify. If I want a song,’ Ill buy it on iTunes. I did it already a few times. I heard a song — on YouTube, I heard it, and I said, ‘I’m gonna buy that.’ And I bought it. And I heard another one and I bought it. That’s the way to do it, ’cause that keeps the musician alive and making money and working. Otherwise, the only way a musician can make any work or money is to tour and do touring and merchandise,” he added.
‘Temple Of The Blues’ featured names like Joe Bonamassa, Ted Nugent, Billy Sheehan, Bumblefoot, Dee Snider, Steve Stevens, Pat Travers, and Rudy Sarzo.
