Veteran hard rock drummer Vinny Appice will be touring with Heaven And Hell, featuring Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, and Geezer Butler most of 2007. Yet the famous sticksman thinks he will find some time to play with 3 Legged Dogg as well for their first-ever live gigs in order to promote the quintet\'s debut full-length for Perris Records, \"Frozen Summer\". Says Appice:\"We were planning to go out and do a tour in 2007, but now, the Black Sabbath/Heaven And Hell thing is going to take a lot of my time up, so everything is put on hold. We intend to do a video in February, so we can have that at least on the Internet. I think we\'ll probably end up doing some shows, because Black Sabbath won\'t go all the way for eight or nine months — there will be breaks here and there.\"
Despite his tricky scheduling, Appice is confident that 3 Legged Dogg will continue on, and begin work on their sophomore effort soon.
Formed out of a California collective known as the Hollywood Allstarz, Vinny Appice and vocalist Chas West of Bonham repute are 3 Legged Dogg\'s founding members. Guitarists Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot) and Brian Young (David Lee Roth), with Jimmy Bain (Rainbow, Dio) on bass signed on soon after. And according to Appice, the group\'s chemistry was instant:
\"It works great. Carlos [Cavazo] has a lot of ideas, a lot of riffs and different things we tried. Jimmy [Bain] comes up with — out of nowhere — different changes and certain riffs that he wrote himself. We just basically try them and if we like them, we keep working on them. Chas [West] hears a vocal line, then we\'ll keep working on it and develop it into a song. And then Brian Young is more of a bluesy/rock player — he\'s got a lot of different riffs.\"
