Carmine Appice, is one of the top names in drumming. During an interview conducted with Alternative Nation, the multi-decade veteran of his craft discussed a multitude of topics. Here, Carmine continues to discuss his falling out with Sharon Osbourne and indicates that Osbourne would have allegedly sabotaged her own show just as an excuse to fire Carmine and that Osbourne withheld pay bonuses after he was fired from Ozzy Osbourne’s band. This big name recently took a shot at Osbourne’s wife not too long ago. Alternative Nation has transcribed the following comments.

Carmine: When we came to America I started doing 4-5 masterclasses a day which had 50 people at them. All my master classes were sold out making $1500 a day cash and I didn’t sell any merch, but I got PR because I was taking a couple of bucks a head and donating it to UNICEF and charity. One night in Cincinnati, there was a newspaper article about the master class, playing with Ozzy, and charity posted up backstage to bust my balls. I gave credit to Sharon and Ozzy for the drum setup and effects where it would come to the front of the stage for my drum solo. I just happen to be the drummer on that stage. That night the effect didn’t work I asked Bob You think she would sabotage her show to make me look like an idiot cause of that article.

Carmine: He said, ‘Oh definitely.’ She doesn’t give a s*** about the show. Not long after that, she said you seem tired after those clinics you do. Motley Crue was opening for us kicking ass and Ozzy would be on the side of the stage yawning. Ozzy was tired. That night in Cincinnati when the drum effect didn’t work, someone cut my head off all my shirts in the merch boxes. That took some work. 50-80 shirts and someone cut my head off all of it. It was one thing after another. Then I see Sharon, she says I think your name is too big, you need to start your own band. Tommy Aldridge is taking over Monday, you’re fired. What do you mean I’m fired? I have a contract. (Sharon) said I guess I’ll see you in court. The drag about it was, that I was helping Ozzy write some killer songs and get great drum sounds, good production on the next record and he was a friend.

Carmine: So she wouldn’t even pay for my drums. And we shipped back to, uh, California. I had my roadie, he wouldn’t go, he wouldn’t stay on the tour. He said you’re firing Carmine? I’m outta here too. Yeah. So he ended up driving. I had, I rented a truck, put him in the truck, and drove back to California from Texas. I immediately hired an attorney, and I won, I won a, a settlement, but you know, it’s not what I would’ve made with the band.

Carmine: And I never, and, and I never got the bonuses for the album that sold like five or ten million. I was like, wow, a lot of money out of my pocket. It was just a complete f***up, you know? And then, and then, uh, I put King Cobra together after that, and I got some good money. And I was in rehearsal with King Cobra and we were painting vehicles. I bought a motor home of a truck and a van. We wanted all to be white. So we were painting the mobile home white. I had some roadies that work with me that were auto painters. So they knew exactly how to do it. And then Ozzy was there, auditioning a drummer is funny enough.

Carmine: He comes up to me and goes: “I hope we can still be friends.” I know you and my misses have a problem. but I hope we can be friends.” So, I mean, what do I tell you? It wasn’t him at all. Yeah. I had Ozzy up on the ladder, helping him mask up the, uh, the windows with masking tape and brown paper was pretty funny,