Biography Coen Pots

Born in October 1976 with a huge love for eighties rock. I never liked solo projects for guitarists because of the self centered foolish amount of notes and speed, but enjoyed guitarplayers in a band like Van Halen, Toto and the Dire Straits because of the well placed functional guitars in a song. But mostly because of the composing skills these guys showed for many years. Therefor I also like Michael Landau as a guitarplayer, for example on the CD of Richard Marx.
Great feel, nice tone, screaming and also tenderly playing.

When I was 14 years old I started playing in bands as a guitarist. A few years later I decided to play bass and earn some money.
A lot of bands needed a bassplayer, also commercial bands. Within a week after buying a 5 string I got called and offered a job for two gigs every week.
Off course I jumped into it but after a few months I felt pretty unhappy. The music was not intentional, the musicians were too old and untalented and only money was the reason. From that time I played in a lot of commercial bands (Citylight, Kosmos, Larry Cooke, Backup, September, Mistral, Vogue), also as a stand-in. I also played as a stand-in bassplayer with Kardelen, a Dutch Turkish girl band with a lot of major gigs on TV, radio, Paradiso Amsterdam, Tivoli Utrecht, a Germany tour and the preprogram for Tarkan and Candan Ercetin (Turkish pop artists). I also wrote for them a track on the CD for the national children's book week. In those days I've been working on several studio projects as a musical and a radio commercial for Philips electronics with members of the Jody Singers. I finished my study as a teacher in 1998.

In 2000 I started working as a fulltime professional guitarist in Major League, a well-known rock cover band. When I finally discovered after a year that my complete social life got ruined, I quit. At that time I started a new commercial band with Jeffrey van Heuven van Staereling, the lead singer of Major League. We played in The Netherlands, but also Germany and Belgium. In wintertime I also started teaching on a music school.

Since 2002 I'm a member of Aquila. This is my first band experience with their own music. Together we've spent a lot of time in making the new record.
Hopefully this CD will be a great success. Than we can probably come to Japan and give some awesome gigs!

In 2003 I've decided to quit earning money with covering others music and started an audio production company. That company produces commercials, jingles, library-stockmusic, presentational music and track for singers. For two days a week I'm teaching young teachers how to develop good music education on primary schools. Sometimes I'm asked as a guest speaker for The Rockacademy in Tilburg.

Coen Pots - Eric Derix - Fred Hendrix - Emiel Scholsberg - Ron Hendrix