Coma (band)

Coma
Piotr Rogucki during concert in MegaClub in Katowice.
Background information
Origin	Łódź, Poland
Genres	Alternative rock,post-grunge, hard rock
Years active	1998–present
Labels	BMG Poland, Sony BMG Music Entertainment Poland, Mystic Production
Website	http://coma.art.pl/
Members	Marcin Kobza Rafał Matuszak Piotr Rogucki Tomasz Stasiak Dominik Witczak

Coma is a Polish rock band which was founded in June 1998 in Łódź. It is one of the most successful rock bands on the Polish music scene of the last decade. As of 2013, the band has released four Polish-language studio albums (three of which have topped the Polish sales chart OLiS), two English-language studio albums, and two live albums.

The name "Coma" was chosen at random: the band members tossed a coin to decide on it, as they had an appointment for an interview with Radio Łódź.

During their first rehearsals they named the band Voo Doo Art, but it didn't catch on.[1] The band started off with Dominik Witczak on guitar and Tomasz Stasiak on drums. They had played together earlier in a band enigmatically called Ozoz. After Ozoz had fallen apart, Witczak and Stasiak tried to form a band which would play music inspired by Illusion, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, etc. Yet finding a bass player turned out to be problematic. However hard they tried, they didn't get along with any of the candidates for this honourable post. They had to wait quite a long time for God to send them Rafał Matuszak, who apart from being a pretty good musician and partygoer, turned out to live 300m from Witczak. The three guys were fascinated with one another. They had rehearsals a few times a week. Dominik, Tomasz and Rafał made up their minds to rock together until their dying day, and then they cut their veins and... sealed their decision with blood.

In this way the hybrid was created and functioned under the name "Voo Doo Art". The next to join the band was Wojciech Grenda, whom Dominik and Tomasz knew from Ozoz. After they welcomed him warmly, their friendship developed very quickly. To complete the picture, the members needed someone who could sing. But here their expectations were sky high. Stasiak, Witczak and Grenda had once played with Agnieszka Unczur, a person who sung better than most of the vocalists you could hear on the radio. The gentlemen, obsessed with her superb voice, could only choose someone who sung at least as well as she did, or better. God showed mercy one more time.

Matuszak, along with Witczak, apart from playing in Voo Doo Art performed with another band - De Ja Vi (guitar+bass+3 girls on vocals). De Ja Vi's rehearsals took place in the building owned by scout troop where one person, a scout, appeared very often. It was Piotr Rogucki. They were bound to meet. Our musicians thought that it would be worth trying to adopt the young talented vocalist. Here we skip the fact that these three gentlemen knew each other from technical college. Most probably it didn't occur to them then that they would ever play in one band. After the first rehearsal with Piotr, the choice proved to be the best possible. Long months of struggling with compositions followed. The guys drank many different alcoholic beverages that helped to tighten cooperation within the band. Everything seemed to be heading in a good direction. And suddenly, after years of plenty, a very unpleasant "situation" took place. As a result, Wojciech Grenda was dismissed from the band. Fortunately his replacement was found very quickly. Marcin Kobza joined the band. He was known in Łodź at that time as an excellent guitarist and played with groups such as Pig Bit or Second Hand. He fit in perfectly.