Dockta D's music is eclectic and his influences are too numerous to list here, but the short list is - blues, R and B, T and A, rock, blues rock, jailhouse rock, limbo rock, religious rock, acid rock, folk rock, soft rock, hard rock, rock around the clock, rock hard crock, volcanic rock, rock opera, rock and a hard place, rock-n-roll, rolling rock, rolling stones, roll away the stone, too rolling stone, hard roll, soft roll, Italian roll, roll over Beethoven, the Beatles, the beat goes on, Texas Radio and the Big Beat, Texas swing, playground swing, swinging from the gallows pole, DC sling, Nashville swang, Francisco schwagger, Cambodian bamboo accordian, Uncasville umbilicordian, harmodium, hurdy gurdy, tin pan alley, Icelandic longboat coast-raiding hymns, funk, flunk, fusion, re-fusion, fission jazz,tango, tango-n-cash, tang the hump, ting tang walla walla bing bang, Kentucky spoon kloppting, Alabammah fork flaffing, Mussel Shoales, Mrs. Mrs. Jones, New England whaling songs, whale song, bird song, Brian's song, song sung blue, bluesmagoos, hamhock blues, country blues, city blues, roadhouse blues, hill street blues, blues for breakfast, organ grinder, church organ, Roller rink organ, morgan on the organ, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Mormon Tabernacle Jazz Band, the Mormon Tabernacle Death Mettle Symphony, the Mermon T. Abernathy Mormon Barber Shop Siamese Quartuplets, Mormon campfire polygamy hymnals, Donnie and Marie, LSD music, Philadelphia psychedelia, psychedelic shack, Shak Rap, scat, Mummers, Polish polka dot, Greek wedding music, Italian funeral home music, four beat waltz, East Tennessee Smokey Mountain yodelayhehoo, Ozzie Ozborne, the theme from Ozzie and Harriet, the land of Oz castle guard chants, Oslo ohsolomeo, Latvian Kjazunknak vodka drinking nursery rhymes, the Cracker Jack jingle, soundtrack, electronic, techno, trance, house, home, home and garden, sound garden, kindergarten snack-time sing-a-longs, grunge music, la grange music, torture chamber music, new wave, old wave, permanent wave, surf music, nurf music, smurf music, beach shag music, tiki music, klatu mirata niktu nasal humming, black rapper lip and mouth drum kit emulation, hip hop, bip bop, ahhhh beep beep, merengue, marangue, opera, oprah, punta, la pinto, Mexican hat dance, Mexican halter top dance, Mexican rope belt dance, elevator muzak, nursery school red stick/blue stick marching music, ragtime, bayou bullfrog roast tunes, campfire songs, ol' Lewsianna street beat, back beat, front beat, ballroom waltz, ballroom blitz, banjo, washboard, folk, traditional African music, traditional Hawaiian fire knife virgin sacrifice log drum music, traditional new age music, contemporary old age music, Gaelic boogaloo, synthesized, musical chairs music, zydeco, wrap, Campfire Girl throat warbling, Comanche Indian tomtom war beats, the one and only Atlanta Braves "Indian" crowd chant, European soccer fan riot chants, gay and lesbian "coming out" striptese music, death row harmonica music, boogie woogie, reggae, oye oye oye punk, pink, massage parlor background meditation wave sounds, mall subliminal inspirational, world music, big band, little band, mini band, Transylvanian gypsy calypso, heavy metal (lead, iron, tin), light medal, jews harp, jews trombone, jews timbales, Palestinian la boomba, bomba y plena, Rat Pack, Rat Patrol, Mickey Mouse Club, accoustic finger style guitar, slide guitar, steel pedal guitar, Bangladesh sitar, Tibetan shitar, belly drumming, alternative music, optional music, substitute music, easy listening, hard listening, hard of hearing, country western, country eastern, city southern, salsa, samba, simba, sambo, jazzbo, harp music, harpo marx, Inuit Indian Harp seal bludgeoning chant music, commercial jingle music, country fiddle, fiddle faddle, fiddle about, classical, neo-classical, neo-lithical, ska, Gothic contrapuntal, Contra-Iranian disco, juke joint, jug band, Kate Smith, the Charleston, skin head love ballads, punk, monk, Gregorian chant, Motown sole, Irish jig, crooner, techno, soft death metal, bluegrass, greengrass, marching muzak, gospel, cotton field call and answer, Mexican pop polka, Welsh Arterial Clogging, Korean Creole, Australian dingo watzenelli waltz, Scottish bagpipe, Indian hookapipe, Swiss glockenspoogle, Finnish kazooka, Iranian self-flagellation hymnals, and Japanese kamakazee karyoke.

When he has more time he'll provide the complete list of all his musical influences, including those from the Netherlands and Butte, Montana.

As an adolescent, he went regularly to concerts and saw the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin (8 times), The Doors (3 times), The Allman Brothers (5 times), B.B. King (10 times), The Who, Neil Young and Crazyhorse, Santana, Iron Butterfly, Johnny Winter, Crosby, Still and Nash, Chicago, CCR, Blood, Sweat and Tears, TOP, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Grand Funk Railroad, SRV, Procol Harum, Booker T, Jefferson Airplane and Starship, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Hugh Masekela, Canned Heat (7 times), Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, The Moody Blues, Three Dog Night, Joe Cocker, Little Richard, Dr. John the Night Tripper, Humble Pie, The James Gang, Richie Havens, Led Zeppelin, Johnnie Taylor, Steve Miller, Supertramp, John Mayall, The J. Geils Band, Cactus, Rod Stewart and Small Faces, Aerosmith, Bad Company, Sha-Na-Na, James Brown, Weather Report, Mott the Hoople, Eric Burton and War, Sonny Stitt, Deep Purple, Rick Derringer, Edgar Winter and White Trash, The Four Tops, Frankie Vallie, James Cotton, Foghat, Genesis, Rare Earth, Peter Frampton, Herbie Hancock, Wet Willlie, Isley Brothers, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, Journey, Traffic, The Police, Dave Mason, Steppenwolf, Robin Trower, Bob Dylan, Charlie Musselwhite, Stones, Toots Theilmans, Mountain, Yes, Bo Diddley, The Temptations, Bonnie Raitt, Black Sabbath, Jack Bruce, Staple Singers.

Dockta D is a decorated veteran of many foreign battles of the bands and he holds numerous honors and titles in WHA competitions (World Harp Association, Inc.):

Winner 2002 Greater Duluth Area Pork Rhind Harmonica Blow-Off and Pig Roast, upsetting three-time winner, Jake "Blow Hard" Shaw, in a 15-round harmonica blood fest;

Winner 2005 Grand World Universal Pangeal Harmonica Schwing-Dig Jam-Offs, held last year in Reykjavik, Iceland, at Ice Age National Park. His upper lip got frostbitten but it's ok now, thanks to a gal named Johanna Ragnhildur Bergthoradottir for her quick mouth-to-mouth resuscitation;

Proud Winner of the coveted "Ho-ner Rhineland Chicken Wing Hoffbrau Beer Blitzkreig and Harp Throw-Down Championship Cup" for 2006. He defends his title this year in L' Provence d' Arpegia on the Moorish Gulf;

Runner-up in this year's Windy City Harp Suck Off and Blues Thang competition. Lonnie "Harmonidog" Kaminski took first place. He and the Dockta were neck and neck in the twenty-fifth turnaround of Stormy Monday when Doc accidentally swallowed a mini C harp after a beer mug hit him in the throat and he had to recuse himself from the competition (note: second place only took $178 bucks and two tickets to the annual St. Paddy's Pulled Pork Porch Picnic and Dart Throw but, what the hey, there was plenty of beer);

Came in 13th Place in the All-Arounds at last year's 3rd Annual Trout Rodeo, Frisbee Golf, andUnusual Instrument competition;

Took 902nd place in the 2005 Alaska State Harpoon Cup (it should be noted that the Dockta thought it was a harmonica competition but decided to stay in Naknek and compete anyway. Despite his piteous performance in the harpoon throwing and whale bone sculpting events, he did learn how to stalk harp seals and developed an affinity for blubber burgers);

Holds an Honorary Professorate of Vibration Harmonics from the infamous Walter Reed Institute of Audio Dynamonics (the manufactory where they manufactor the reeds for harmonicas, kazoos, and panfloots) in Upper Honkers, NY, awarded pre-humously (because he's still alive);

The Dockta is recognized widely as the pregenetrator of the fine art of Crowd Smurfing;

Directorperson and Chairperson of the Greater Wilmington Area Harmonica Lampoon Society and Blind Children's Orphanage Charity Fund, benefiting all blind, indigent, orphaned harmonica players across the First State, such as, Dockta D. (Well, actually, he's not really blind but sometimes feigns it in his act to pick up extra tips. Everybody does it, so it's no big deal);

Founder, Delaware Association For The Illegally Blind. Tax-deferred annuity-deductable cash contributions may be sent to the Dockta at the addess listed herein;

Holds Royale Grande Meisterklauss Harmonicalutionist Classification in the lower 47 States (Utah doesn't recognize the Blues... only the Jazz), awarded just two years ago at the Old Pioneer Days County Fair and Blues Whollapalooza, entitling him to place his name at the top of the sign-up sheet at all WHA-sanctioned open-mic nites from here to Baltimore, including, of course, the infamous White Horse Lounge in Havre de Grace;

Voted "Best Philharmonic Windjammer", for his circular breathing and circular reasoning techniques, at the 2004 Bose Audiophiliac Convention (sponsored by Bose) held that year at the 'World Famous' Route 42 Truck Stop, Rodeo and Casino located in Algonquin Territory, just up the road a snake from the old landfill. Note, Dockta D doesn't remember much about this event but graciously accepts the honor post-memorially;

Head Superintendent of the Better Harlem Harp Boys Consortium (sponsored by Bose), a laudable organization dedicated to teaching young stray homeless harp boys, like Dockta D was, how to survive on the mean streets, such as, how to shuck and jive, how to tap dance for money, how to shoot craps in back alleys, how to re-load a 45 on a dead run, how to run a 3 card Molly scam, and how to play "Willie and The Po' Boys" on the harmonica for when you are in the bull pen awaiting arraignment;

Inventor of the concept "nuclear fusion harmonics" which has revolutionized the way people think about overblown high notes on a harmonica and their affect on the female libido;

Discovered the fact that harmonica is like a woodwind instrument except that the Japanese have perfected plastic harmonicas and so Doc came up with the phrase "plasticwind" to deal with that;

Was the first to suggest that "the blues" should be renamed "the blacks" cause them's the folks that discovered it and they should get they props. So, you would say, "I got the blacks for you, baby";

Although suffering from Singular Schlerosis, a rare form of the disease, in which only the schlero on the left side is inflicted, he still holds the State record for the longest known rendition of Magic Dick's Whammer Jammer (14 hours, 22 minutes, 6 seconds), achieved in response to a $20 barroom challenge from Clarence "Wide Mouth" Henderson, of the Delaware City Blue Collar Boys (note: Guiness refuses to recognize the record because the Dockta greased his lips with Pennsoil for the last three hours. To this day, he refuses to drink their beer);

Founder of the newly formed Harp Logger Brewing Company - the dock intends to spank Guiness by stealing away a sizeable chunk of their market share - Ha! then, maybe they'll whistle a different tune about his bloody record;

Author of the bestselling book***, The Tibbetin Book of the Dead, which is basically a book about what happens to you when you die, which is, basically, that you die, and that's pretty much it;

Author of the bestselling book, The Tibbetin Book of the Un-Dead, which is basically a book about what happens to you when you don't die, which is, basically, a bunch of crap, which is why there is the "blues" (or the "blacks", as Dockta D prefers) on this Earth;

Author of the bestselling book, The Tibbetin Book of the Un-Born, which is basically a book about what happens to you if you are never born, which is, basically, not much;

Original model for the Mister Softee logo, for which he received a lifetime supply of hot choco-dip and walnut topping on any sundae of his choice purchased on any Sunday of his choice (except during the second Sunday of each month during "Second Sunday Second Scoup Free" promotions);