Also details his own sex life, including bedding an estimated 4,500 women

Said he watched Bonham film a sex tape involving the woman and the fish

When Carmine Appice started playing drums for a young Jimmy James - aka Jimi Hendrix - as a 17-year-old in New York, he was a virgin untouched by the excesses of rock and roll.

Three years later, he had slept with hundreds of women and was throwing sex parties in his hotel with his Vanilla Fudge bandmates.

He had also been introduced to Led Zeppelin and their drummer John Bonham, which would led to him witnessing one of the craziest and most depraved acts in rock and roll history.

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Carmine Appice, now aged 69, the former drummer for Vanilla Fudge and a host of other rock stars, has spoken out about rock and roll's craziest and most depraved years

Appice lays bare the hedonistic years at the zenith of Sixties and Seventies rock and roll in his new book, Stick It, including in infamous incident involving Led Zepplin's John Bonham, a young woman, and a shark

Appice recalls that fateful day in a Seattle hotel room in 1969 in his new book, Stick It, which was previewed by the New York Post.

The hotel happened to be the Edgewater Inn, on Elliott Bay in Puget Sound, which allowed people staying there to fish out of the windows in their rooms.

Appice recalls he was hanging out with his bandmates and members of Led Zeppelin when a young woman he had been 'romancing' came to call.

High on cannabis, the woman kept asking Appice whether she could make a movie with him, after he told her about a film camera one of his friends owned.

While Appice waved her attentions off, Bonham, his tour manager Richard Cole, and two of their crew members liked the idea.

However, before filming started they went into a neighboring room and came back with 'a 2-foot-long, dead-eyed, ferocious-looking mud shark' that somebody had caught and placed in a bathtub.

With the camera rolling, the men ordered the woman to undress and proceeded to whip her with the shark, leaving a series of bright red lacerations across her back, as she rolled around on the bed.

In a scene Appice describes as 'carnage', the men then proceeded to simulate sex acts between the girl and the shark before the recording was broken up by an appalled hotel manager.

Appice claims to have watched as Bonham (left and right) filmed a bizarre sex tape involving the girl and a two-foot-long mud shark which was later immortalized in a Frank Zappa song

The incident took place at the Edgewater Inn, in Seattle, after somebody managed to catch a shark while fishing from their hotel window (pictured, The Beatles fish from the hotel on a separate occasion)

The shocking events did not stop there, however, as a group of roadies continued to use and humiliate the woman at another location.

Appice recalls wanting to leave, had the activity not been taking place in his room.

The following day, Appice related the story to Frank Zappa, who immortalized the grim tale in his 1971 song The Mud Shark.

As for the woman, years later Appice says she called into a radio show while he was on the air to say she had moved to Alaska and started a family.

The drummer himself moved on to play for the likes of Cactus, Beck, Bogert and Appice, and then for Ozzy Osborne - though he says he was fired from the latter after crossing paths with Sharon.

He eventually settled down with partner of 13 years, Leslie Gold, who had insisted on working out how many women he had slept with over the years.

While Appice had no idea of the figure himself, Gold eventually worked out, by means of a spreadsheet, a rough total of 4,500.

He said: 'Leslie asked me a loaded question, and the shocking answer was 4,500. But number 4,501 was the one that mattered most.'

Appice said he formed a lasting friendship with Zepplin, in particular drummer Bonham, who drank himself to death in 1980 (pictured, Zeppelin perform in New York in the Seventies)