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Both
are great drummers in their own right. Except one pronounces his
last name 'ap-a-cee' and the other 'a-piece', one has a Fu
Manchu mustache and the other one doesn't, one is old and the
other is older, one has played with Rod Stewart, Vanilla Fudge,
Cactus and B.B.A. (Beck, Bogert and Appice) and the other one
has played with John Lennon, Dio and Black Sabbatth, one is ugly
and the other one slightly uglier. But the question is, which
one is better? Which one came first? And which one copied which?
Who's got the most power and the most skills? And more
importantly, who pronounces the last name correctly?
In this seemingly vanity project, the Italian Brooklyn brothers
try to put all comparisons to rest and 'bad blood' to side by
going head to head on an interpretation of Led Zeppelin's "The
Ocean". For it, they prepare by bad mouthing each other through
some mildly (and some genuinely) funny moments refereed by ABC's
Francesca Capucci (I've got no idea who she is) and have
recruited the talents of guitarist Jennifer Batten (who used to
play for Michael Jackson and here dons some
seriously dated soccer mom blue jeans) and of bassist Alphonso
Johnson (Weather Report). The drum wars itself take place at the
famous Rainbow Bar & Grill in the infamous Sunset Boulevard and
features both drummers playing at once; with each one
improvising and infusing its own personal style to the classic.
The whole "Drum Wars' show gets old after seven or eight minutes
when we realize that no matter how great these two are and how
much imagination they put into their playing, the competition is
quite irrelevant and the show is rather boring with two drummers
that at the core share much of their style and power.
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