A former Baltimore Oriole pitcher turned singer. With his group the Muddy River Line they performed at the Pirates Den, Club 175, Mr. Bojangles…
Two of his original songs were featured on the single as by El Fago Baco (Kaymar 2957). Greg also released a single as El Fago Baco on MET 1000, and as Greg Arnold on the Fast Ball label.
In 1972 the Greg Arnold Show played double bills with the Chavis Brothers at the Stardust. He hired the group Chrome as his backing band circa 1972-73, playing locally and touring. The group split while in Rhode Island, later re-forming as Just Friends…
Greg and his groups Incorporated, and Circus consisted of Baltimore members Sam Boyd (guitar, vocals), George ‘Doc’ Dochterman (bass, vocals ex-Brass Rail, Abilene Road House), John Kormantic (keyboards, vocals ex-Jabez Stone, Cathouse), Paul Soroka (saxophone, keyboards)… Most of the other members were from out of town. Locally the group played Mr. Bojangles, Club Venus, and Hollywood Palace. On the road they traveled to New Orleans, Panama City FL, Reading PA, Syracuse NY, West Palm Beach FL, Pensacola FL, Louisville KY, Indianapolis IN, Dover DE (The Hub), and Winston-Salen NC.
The group split in Pensacola just after a big hurricane. Staying there, Boyd, Dochterman and Kormantic recruited a local drummer and played the area for about six months, then moved out to the Hawthorne / El Segundo area of California.
Dochterman and Boyd continued playing music as members of a group called S.R.O. and performed as backing band for Ingrid Croce (Jim Croce’s widow) for a short stint in 1981. Shortly afterwards they worked as Gary Puckett’s backing group for a few months.
‘Doc’ admittedly “is still crazy” but not as crazy as the old ‘Echoes’ days. In the ‘00s he continued performing music around the San Diego area with his band Nitelife. Soroka also relocated to San Francisco where he played for the Gary Smith Blues Band (replacing Robben Ford) before returning to Baltimore and working with Crack the Sky, Dennis Chambers, Carl Filipiak, and others.
19** Kaymar 2957 On My Way Home / Nana Baby
197* MET 1000 Heart and Soul In Hand / Foolish People
1972 Fast Ball 2001 Lord, You Gave Me A Mountain / Wichita Lineman
