Doctor Fun aka Herbie Katz has been playing harmonica since he was hitch-hiking with a friend in Connecticut at 15 years old.
He has studied harmonica with Lee Oskar and David Barrett and was influenced early on by Paul Butterfield and John Mayall.
He truthfully believes himself to be a born again black blues man whose influences extend from Louisiana to Australia, but most people think he's making this up.
A wandering loner, he prefers to sit in with different bands roaming from club to club. He did, however, perform for three years with "Blue Baron and the Stretch Club" and was seen and heard at many clubs throughout Los Angeles performing with them in the mid 90's.
Not many people have been fortunate enough to tie him down and record him, although he does appear briefly on Harriet Schock's "from Fairfax to Pasadena" CD. He can also be heard wailing on Wumbloozo's CD "Come Down Here." If you come across a bootleg recording that you swear contains his playing, he'll flatly deny it.
Doctor Fun just loves music. He'll play Blues and Jazz for free, but you'll have to pay him if you want him to play country music.
Check him out. Then you can write his next bio...Addendum February 2009:
OK, I've been busy. You can now hear me on CD's by Harriet Schock, Wumbloozo, Adrian Bewley, Michelle Mallone and Mike Gaddis (Jazz).
Watch for me in the new Henry Jaglom film "Irene in Time" which premiere's May 18, 2009!
