Carmine Appice still stands by his earlier comments about Nikki Sixx and using backing tracks. In a new interview with Classic Album Review, the drummer was asked how healthy it is to use backing tracks in live performances. He replied saying that it was terrible:
“It’s terrible. I got into this big fight with Nikki Sixx about that which I didn’t mean to do anything. Somebody asked me about Jeff Beck and they asked me about Mick [Mars]. I was talking to Mick and Mick told me what he told me and I just said it to somebody and it blew up all over the place, but I think that’s terrible. It’s like Milli Vanilli back in the day. Their career got destroyed from that. I mean I could see if you want to put it some vocals or background vocals or something or keyboard.”
He added his understanding as to why people would be using backing tracks:
“Some guys do that I could see that you had a little depth to it but to do it on bass and drums and guitars I mean there are a lot of people doing that. Boy, that’s terrible.”
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