abandoned follow-up to First Utterance, "The Malgaard Suite". Sputnik Music rated Out of the Coma 3.5 out of 5. Louder Sound rated it four stars out of five. The members were active outside Comus. Wootton also appears on some recordings by Slapp Happy. Cooper went on to join Henry Cow. Reed player Jon Seagroatt is also a member of free-improvising trio Red Square. Colin Pearson went on to produce hits for other artists, including "Forever Young" for Alphaville. Seagroatt and singer Bobbie Watson married in 2003. Influence In 1998, Opeth singer and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt used part of a sentence from "Drip Drip" for the title of the album My Arms, Your Hearse. The full line was "As I carry you to your grave, my arms your hearse". Another nod to Comus was given on the 2005 Opeth album Ghost Reveries. The second track, "The Baying of the Hounds", was derived from a line in the song "Diana" which reads, "And she knows by the sound of the baying, by the baying of the hounds". English experimental band Current 93 covered the song "Diana" from First Utterance on their studio album Horsey. Musically, this version differs considerably from the original, with David Tibet singing the lyrics in an agonized fashion and constructing most of the song from a loop based around a vertiginous violin arrangement from the original. Personnel Current members Roger Wootton – acoustic guitar, lead vocals (1969–1972, 1974, 2008–present) Glenn Goring – 6–12 acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide, hand drums, backing vocals (1969–72, 2008–present) Andy Hellaby – Fender bass, slide bass, backing vocals (1969–1972, 1974, 2008–present) Colin Pearson – violin, viola (1969–72, 2008–present) Bobbie Watson – lead and backing vocals, percussion (1969–1972, 1974, 2008–present) Jon Seagroatt – flute, oboe, hand drums (2008–present) Former members Rob Young – flute, oboe, hand drums (1969–71) Gordon Coxon – drums (1974) Keith Hale – keyboards (1974) Lindsay Cooper – bassoon (1972, 1974) Discography Studio albums First Utterance (1971) To Keep from Crying (1974) Out of the Coma (2012) Live albums East of Sweden: Live at Melloboat Festival 2008 (2011) Out of the Coma (2012) recorded 1972 Box sets Song to Comus: The Complete Collection (2005) EPs "Diana / In the Lost Queen's Eyes / Winter is a Coloured Bird" (1971) Roger Wootton solo single "Fiesta Fandango" / "New Tide" References External links 2010 interview with Roger Wootton on Prog Sphere Psychedelic folk