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It's called a "reunion tour" punct. Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert and Vince Martell are apparently still on speaking terms. The Fudge broke up in March of 1970 with Tim and Carmine going to Cactus and then to Beck, Bogert & Appice in 1972. In 1982, Fudge reunited without Vince Martell to tour promoting the release of "Best Of". That resulted in an album of fresh material in 1984 for the album "Mystery". Ron "Jango" Mancuso (Left For Dead, Warrant, Jake E. Lee, Red Dragon Cartel; Beggars and Thieves) played guitar along with Jeff Beck, who guested under the moniker "J. Toad". Two Fudge reunion tours followed in 1987 & 1988 with Paul Hanson on guitar. Lanny Cordola replaced Hanson in 1988 and then they went their separate ways again.

In 1991 Appice revived the Vanilla Fudge name for a tour with Ted Nugent's former band members Derek St. Holmes (guitar, vocals), Martin Gerschwitz (keyboards, vocals) and Tom Croucier (bass, vocals), which resulted in the album "The Best of Vanilla Fudge Live".

Three of the originals (Appice, Bogert, and Martell) reunited in 1999 with vocalist/organist Bill Pascali replacing Mark Stein to record the greatest hits album, "Vanilla Fudge 2001/ The Return / Then And Now". In 2002 Pete Bremy and later T.M. Stevens subbed on bass for Tim Bogert (who was too ill to tour) and in 2003 they released a live album, "The Real Deal – Vanilla Fudge Live", recorded on tour in 1987 with Paul Hanson on guitar. Martell overdubbed guitar and vocals later. In 2003–2005, the group toured with Teddy Rondinelli standing in on guitar for Martell.

In 2005, all four original members of Vanilla Fudge reunited for a tour with members of The Doors (touring as Riders On The Storm) with Steppenwolf and in some areas The Yardbirds. Pascali returned in place of Stein for some 2005 and 2006 shows before leaving to join the New Rascals. On October 15, 2006, Vanilla Fudge was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame and all four originals showed up.

HBO's final episode of The Sopranos in 2007 featured a remake of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (with Pascali on lead vocals) as a theme for the cliff hanger. The band also went back into the studio to record "Out Through the In Door," a Led Zeppelin cover album released in 2007 only in Europe. Also, the band (Stein & Martell with Steve Argy on bass and Jimmyjack Tamburo on drums) performed "You Keep Me Hangin' On" for a PBS fundraising pledge drive in early 2008.

In March 2008 the original lineup of Vanilla Fudge embarked on a tour of the US (mostly in New England). But in the summer of that year, Bogert and Appice left to tour with Cactus, which they had reformed in 2006. Stein and Martell continued on in 2008 and 2009 as "Mark Stein and Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge" for a tour with Jimmyjack Tamburo on drums and Pete Bremy returning on bass. "Out Through the In Door" was released in the US in 2008 and Stein and Martell performed shows during that period with Steve Argy and Jimmyjack Tamburo again as the rhythm section.

In the spring of 2011, Vanilla Fudge embarked on what was announced as their "farewell tour". That lineup was: Carmine Appice, Mark Stein, Vince Martell and Pete Bremy. On March 29, 2011, the band appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and performed "You Keep Me Hangin' On." That lineup continued to tour throughout 2011 and again in 2012 supporting The Yardbirds.

As of 2014, Vanilla Fudge is still performing concerts regularly - somewhere, with someone. The name's a money-maker, but you can't tell the players without a program.