Career
He also played in the band Captain Beyond. Dorman was from Saint Louis, Missouri, and moved to San Diego, California in the 1960s. He began playing bass guitar in his teens.
While recording In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Dorman assisted Erik Brann with the arrangement of Brann"s song "Termination," and was given a co-writing cartulary-register
Dorman died of natural causes in his car in Laguna Niguel, California.