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jeudi 28 octobre 2021

Coco Rocks again !

1993 I am still in Berlin, but my heart is no longer there. German reunification bores me to the core. 

In April 1991 I attended Johnny Thunders for what was his last electric concert at the "Extacy"Club  in Berlin Schöneberg.

He flew to New Orleans with the intention of recording a new record with local musicians there and died a few days later. Thay kind of made me decide to follow in his footsteps.

recorded 1993 @ Chez Flame recording Studio New Orleans, La




Arrived in New Orleans I spend all my nights in Clubs and fill myself with Jazz, blues, Rhytm & Blues, Zydeco, Gospel .....

From this moment I only play the acoustic guitar or the banjo and find more pleasure in this sound, soul and rhythm than in the saturation of Marshal amp.

1998 in Guadeloupe FWI


When I returned to Europe in 2003, many were amazed at this change.

Some folks even teased me: hey Coco, you don't do Rock'n'Roll anymore?

Meanwhile thinking  that what I was doing was 100% Rock'N'Roll and finding pathetic to see grey haired folks playing rebellious teenage music.

In 2021, when my friend and bandmate Françoise Cactus died, the desire to resume what I was doing with Lolitas came back to me. I received at this time a phone call from Raphaël Poncelet who offered me his condolences having been a Fan of the Lolitas.

Shortly afterwards the same Raphaël Poncelet asked me to participate in a "Rock" compilation. Eric Pelle a drummer with whom I had been playing for some time in a Cover band had told me that if I had to take a more original path, he would gladly take part of it .

Coco Rox Art $how 2019


Roxane, musician, bassist and also painter, with whom I had already organized art exhibitions, finally also responded to record "Louie Louie" by Richard Berry in the summer of 2021 It was then that I took back my good old Melody Maker





Also summer in the summer 2021 I  got in touch with Cathy Fortineau who had set up a funraising for Henri Paul Tortosa . I offerd her to organize a Rock $how in order to gather some cash for the Fundraising  











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