The Matt Coffy Band, also known as Matt Coffy Productions (MCP) Started in 2004 with "Rock 'til you drop" attitude, singer-songwriter-guitarist, Matt Coffy, who during his musical career that has warmed up for acts like Foghat, The Guess Who, Alannah Myles (Black Velvet), Kingfish (Dead’s Bob Weir), Max Creek, James Cotton, James Montgomery, Treat Her Right (Morphine) among others in his past.

The Matt Coffy Band has been playing in and around the NJ and NYC scene for the last five years. With a trail of steady gigs behind them the band continues to soldier on, winning over new music fans. Besides the 100 or so, varied, deep cut, classic cover songs the band has under there belt, they have a tremendous positive reception playing sets of their own original material in front of audiences.

“You know, I found that we had a unique niche, starting this group and playing our own stuff, if you liked the atmosphere of a hot grooving jam band combined with the party all night southern rock thing, it always went over well, and it was easy for us....anyway, we were really floored that people as far away as France and Australia were buying our first CD “Above the Waterline” so we must of hit a nerve somewhere out there… ”   - Matt Coffy

In Oct 2009, with there second CD release entitled "Scale Worthy”  they follow in the same footsteps..we're talking caveman testosterone, cheap beer, turn it up. Louder! Harder! MORE!!!   Take a listen to songs like "Happy Hour" and "Don't Stop" which clearly are radio freindly material with mass market appeal.

“….we believe the formula is -let it rip, besides, life's to short to play songs that suck. Just make it simple. That's what we had in mind when we started this project. We had a bunch of new songs, some made it on this CD, but, there were a whole bunch that didn't. We picked the ones that we knew were "built in" tunes that we could just whip out at any gig without a question, In fact, when we started playing some of the songs on this CD at gigs, folks were singing along with us, so we knew we had something. Now, the decision to go in and record a real studio album, where everyone plays the parts pretty much separately was new. We recorded our first CD, "Above the Waterline" basically live and it was real comfortable, but, we felt we owed it to our audience to work with a real producer who would help us with developing our sound one step at a time. We had approached a few studios and eventually settled in with Dan McLoughlin in Hoboken, NJ (Weezer, Dinosaur Jr., Breeders, etc.) who helped us tremendously in opening up the songs beyond our imagination. The songs on this CD just play themselves like a story while we watched the magic evolve in the studio over about 2 weeks.. Thanks alone cannot express the support which Dan provided in both his guidance and playing on this CD"   - Matt Coffy

Thanks to the fans from across the planet that have purchased our material online or at a show, or just showed up to watch us perform. Tell us your stories- themcpband@hotmail.com

This is history of my personal music life. The Matt Coffy Band also known as the MCP band, (Matt Coffy Productions) Band. Thinking about starting my own band and creating music has been my destiny since i picked up the guitar. This journey has been full of the ups and downs you would expect, so lets go way back from the start. This history will take you from day one to the present so you can understand my influences directions and a lot of other interesting things.

Like most musicians that end up at least playing in front of a decent sized audience, I too was a member the "learn it the hard way" take no lessons approach. Al though through my very young years I was forced to play piano by my parents, it really didn't amount to much of a musical background, basically because I hated it (to this day I still don't understand why they kept paying for it). But it did make me understand that the piano was something other than a place to put my Hot Wheels. What was really funny that my Dad was an excellent county guitar player and used to show me a thing on acoustic guitar, even went so far as to buy me little nylon practice job, but I just never got it, until the trade.......See, I was in the junior year of High school and The trade consisted of my very destructive 80 lb. compound bow to my most destructive buddy in trade of his Sears Harmony electric guitar. This was a great deal of century for my Parents, because they got rid of a deadly implement for perfectly quiet electric guitar, until I hooked it up to my stereo.

So anyway time flew by and strings broke, I wore down the neck on "the sears and rubbish" special to a nub from my constant playing after school and with my buddies near by. I had easily by then blown out my stereo speakers. But , randomly I started to pick stuff up that I was hearing on the radio or records that I had in my meager collection ( yes back then we had records). So after I was done with high school, I was already pretty well on my way to learning the basics of barre cord songs and ready for college rock.

Since I ended up at UMASS Amherst as my choice for college, the first thing I wanted to do was find other people to Jam with and eventually start a band. UMASS was a rocking huge party school, and even if you stunk, drunk people usually like it anyway. Playing Frat parties was my goal, because that meant the 3 things you need for a successful gig. Beer, chicks and people trying to get chicks drunk. So I started to learn more and more actual songs, and being that I needed a singer, I designated myself as the lead singer. OK, so believe it or not my first gig was actually a step in at a house party with no singer. I had actually auditioned for this band a few weeks before this party as a singer, and they though I didn't even know what I was doing (which was true), so they x'd me. But when I got up on stage and started screaming Led Zeppelin at the top of my lungs, actually seemed like the crowd was interested.. well for about 5 minutes, until the band told me to stop screaming and get off the stage.

But, I had finally done the move that would set into motion several band events. The next morning I started putting up flyer's for "seeking band mates" I needed drums, bass and maybe another guitar, I would sing. Well this went on for about a week, and I found a drummer, and we jammed someplace, but thats was about it, I don't remember if we really got anybody else, but, i remember, we had no equipment.. so it was hard to try and convince others to play with just one amp an a guitar, and a so-so drummer..but things were changing in the primordial soup of my history

One of the guys in my dorm had a band, he was a keyboard player, Karl Von Kries. I would come into his dorm room and we jammed a little here and there, it was pretty cool, we had very different tastes, but together it was sort of interesting. Anyway, Karl's band had its time and they were breaking up, this was sometime around my sophomore year at college and man I just was ready to get things started. So I suggested that we get together and form something.. we grabbed the drummer I was playing with and placed a few flyer's up for a bass player. So I handed over the singing to Karl (thank goodness) to someone who know what that meant ...and became the guitar player number 1.The Bass player came aboard and brought with him guitar player number 2..and so entered in the years of Flat Stanley...frat parties, bars, clubs, we played them all, and it was goos timing, by Junior year, we were a hot band in a very active campus. But alas after a couple of years, and going into our senior year.. Flat Staley became segmented with each of us doing separate projects and preparing for the last gasp of college life

But I was evolving as well and jamming with more popular acts... Jonny and the persuaders, run by Jon Bowser, a long time high school chum of mine, he'd done pretty well at college band scene, we both had great bands at UMASS.. we even played a few gigs together as a tandem act.....Somewhere around the last semester at UMASS.. Jon's band had a guitar player that was moving on.. and I had just ended with Flat Stanley and it was inevitable that I was going to make a run at joining with Jon's band, which now was renamed Strong Waters..

Strong Waters had a good following to start with and since Jon and I lived in the same area, we started playing a lot of gigs around Boston. We have some real momentum, and I can remember wanting to just "hit the road after School" and just play out as much as possible.

So school was over and it was time to move on.. with the advent of playing in Strong Waters, things became very active musically. I took it very seriously, because I really didn't want to work at a real job, and damn, it was dang fun. More and more our momentum built, we had a also started playing almost every single weekend and during the weekdays as well. We put together a solid demo kit and made some pretty good in roads to warming up good-sized acts. I can remember a few, Bob Wier, Foghat, James Cotton, Laurie Sergeant, Treat her Right, The Guess Who, Max Creek. We peeked about somewhere near a double bill at now defunct "Channel" with Max Creek, the audience was reported at 1250 for the night and about 200-300 was our fans within crowd. Yes, we had finally reached the "velvet rope" (which means we now had our own roped off closed dressing room, yes with chicks and groupies). There are many stories during these 3 years, but that's for another time when I can really get all this stuff straight, but somewhere along the lines it started to become a real job.. and we still had day jobs as well.. so it became apparent that we would have to make it "our career" or call it a day.

Strong Waters faded into the sunset as the post college years to "young adult" rolled on, I think after about 3 years most young bands sorta either decide to carry on and hit the road to become something or just move on to other projects. Jon had his own plans to be a single acoustic player which i hear he does now for a living, good for him!.. I wanted a break from the weekends and get some other projects started and the Bass player wanted to get into some different music as well. The drummer who was taking control of our rehearsal space started jamming with other bands.

After a hiatus of about 6 months, Jeff the drummer from Strong waters and I started hanging out more regularly. We still had the same rehearsal space and we started thinking about getting another band together. We had been doing some nights at Liam's Irish Pub in Framingham, MA just jamming with random people, and eventually we convinced a mutual friend, Jay, to help us out with Vocals and join us to make a new project... and we started forming a new band. Mark, Theresa and Steve soon followed after, and we had collected the great and exciting "Broke and Hungry" band.

lmost immediately we found success playing local events, since we had been in the scene, we new a lot of the club owners and they really liked our eclectic blend of music. Broke and Hungry was a great mix of fun people that was really a machine for playing out. We all had good experience and not much was needed just to get up and play 3 sets through the night. We peaked right about when we played a packed house in Worcester at Ralph's Diner, about 1 year into the group's debut.

We had really gained momentum, but each one of us knew that the time was fleeting and the Band had its day in the sun. My life became tangled with making money to pay for my lifestyle and I had now been in bands for 7 years straight, so with my business career on the rise and having had the band life, which means you have 2 jobs essentially and balance is a tough thing.. i decided to take a break. It ended up that my job moved me down to the NYC area where I eventually started writing much more of my own tunes. Thus, I decided to make a the next venture my own original start up band and the thoughts of " Matt Coffy Productions" took priority.

The MCP Band began as my thoughts evolved to more and more to pure roots rock. I wanted to write jamming tunes and really complete the vision that I once had way back when. My Original songs being heard out at live gigs and my ultimate goal to hear some of my songs on the public airwaves.

So right around 2000, my friend Jon Pope ended up moving down to NY state, he was about 45 minutes away from me, so we were able to jam a few times during the months.. As the time went by, I worked on improving my voice and by 2001 we had hooked up with Chuck Tumulty, a drummer who was in a few local bands looking for a place to bring his drums and jam. We thought that it was great a 3 piece band that made a lot of good noise. 2002 was the first year we started actually even playing real cover songs to augment the 15 or so originals that we were practicing.. And as time went on a few of our friends would stop by and hang out.. and thy would always ask.. "hey when are you guys gonna play somewhere?". Actually we had never considered it until 2003, when we realized that we were playing a bunch of covers plus about 15 originals, and had started to get some really cool groves going.

So we started looking for a few gigs here and there and in 2004 we started playing out about once a month. We had decided that this was actually working after we started getting people on the dance floor and got a little exposure. Soon enough around 2006, after we had started playing out more regularly, Jay Singer entered the picture, playing these amazing solos on top of what we had built. We were fascinated that we had found such a great player who could deal with our sillyness! Our originals were really sounding great, so we got in the studio and recorded our first CD "Above The Waterline" live in 2007.  We kept on trucking and playing gigs through 2008 and into 2009.

So that leads us up top the present and we play about 100 cover tunes and over 30 originals..we have a new CD out of 10 great songs.  "JT" John Trani joined our line up over the summer in 2009 picking up the Bass role  In 2010 we added our newst member, Andy Fuchs on lead guitar who has added incredible talent to the line up.  We hope to see you out there !

We are so proud to watch our friends come along for the fun ride as we play our hearts out to the crowds!  See you out there and thanks for all your support!