Growing up in fraternal clubs and spending countless weekends at the roller-rink, music has been a major influence on me my entire life. In addition to "helping" hometown bands set up and tear down at the Elk's Lodge, American Legion or the VFW as a preteen, I started hanging out in a friends recording studio at 15. At 16, I was hauling and setting up live sound systems in the epitome of Texas Hon
ky-Tonks for bands from all over; some of which are "household names" today across the nation. Road Show was a small DJ business started by a good friend of mine that I got involved with sometime back in 1998. As just a few wild and ambitious teenagers, we used to travel all over the Texas panhandle, all over New Mexico and parts of Northwestern Oklahoma. Sadly, along with another business I helped start with that great friend, it died off when I left home and joined the U.S. With his blessing, once I decided to start DJing professionally again, How could I not resurrect the name that I started with??? From my early days in the military, I was always the entertainer hosting platoon parties.... usually every weekend, and the music sometimes never stopped till just a few hours before Monday morning PT. To this day, I'm still grateful to bands like Cross Canadian Ragweed, Cooder Graw and Aaron Watson for sending care packages including their then latest albums during my first tour overseas to invade Iraq in 2003. It was a regular occurrence to blast some fast paced music over the loudspeakers on our "psyops" trucks as we raced to and subsequently patrolled through Baghdad, Iraq. Talk about a hell of a party. Despite the bad, we had a lot of good times and great music. After the Army told me I was too broken to play anymore and sent me home, I decided to leave the high-plains (desert) of Texas, and I moved up to the beautiful mountains of Idaho. Just a few years later, I met and became dear friends with the guy who swooped into town and bought one of the small bars we have. After seeing firsthand his and other bar owners struggles to find good entertainment to service our little community hours from the nearest city, I started to help a little on the big event weekends, and after a difficult New Years party this last year, I did what I'm good at and jumped in head-first with nothing but a passionate love and very broad knowledge of music, a decent amount of experience (albeit over 20 years ago), and an all go no quit personality. For those who may ask where "Doc" comes from, I was an Airborne Combat Medic for nearly ten years, and always assigned to infantry battalions. Check out Walker McGuire's "They Call Me Doc" (recently covered by Aaron Lewis) and it'll explain everything. Besides, it's a great song written and sang by great American's. So shut up, listen up and buckle up, because it's ALWAYS a wild ride with DJ Doc, the DJ formerly known as Hillbilly!
