“If we had stuck together we could have been as big as Led Zeppelin – or at the very least, Deep Purple. We had the stuff!”: The heavy rock innovators whose hard-hitting drummer was a star before John Bonham

Vanilla Fudge.

In the late ’60s, American rockers Vanilla Fudge were labelled as psych-rock, but their impact stretches way further than that.

The New York-based band, which featured Tim Bogert on bass and vocals, Mark Stein on keys and vocals, Vince Martell on guitar, and Carmine Appice on drums, had impacted everything from prog rock to heavy metal.