Wrinkles of My Mind

Wrinkles of My Mind.mp3

Wrinkles of My Mind
words and music by Gene Gorski

A little further down the road
Another spin around this world
Letting the universe unfold
In the wrinkles of my mind

Steam's rising from my bike in the cold mountain air
And the morning bites like a wolf on the hunt
Snow paints serenity over the chaos of my life
A brief vacation from the reality
Like an expensive Santa Fe gallery
Where I can't even afford to look

A little further down the road
Another spin around this world
Letting the universe unfold
In the wrinkles of my mind

The best I can say is that I am still in the game
And I haven't heard the fat lady sing
So as long as I still got some gas in this tank
I'll take it a little further down the road
Hang on for one more spin around the globe
To see what is turning my way

A little further down the road
Another spin around this world
Letting the universe unfold
In the wrinkles of my mind

John and Paul gave us the ticket to ride
Billy Graham left us no place to hide
Snoop Dogg said just let it slide
While Mick Jagger can't be satisfied

So tell me what's a poor boy like me to do
but take it

A little further down the road
Another spin around this world
Letting the universe unfold
In the wrinkles of my mind

Forbidden Fruit

The first two lines of the chorus are where the song came from. It is the story of a man trying to get in to the wrong pair of pants. I recorded this using a Mesa Boogie 5/25 Express using only 5 watts into an AT 4040 mic. Playing the Jon Kammerer acoustic. This is my first time micing the amps and I am happy. Next time I will add room mics for a bigger sound, but for a first try I am pretty darn happy.

Forbidden Fruit.mp3

Forbidden Fruit
words and music by Gene Gorski

I've never loved a woman
Like I love you right now
But is this fresh and never frozen
Or am I just getting my heart broken

Feng shui, passion play
Three way, fore play
On my knees
Here I pray
Gimme what I need
I 'll love you forever tonight
Forbidden fruit tastes so sweet
But I'll love you forever tonight

In this world ruled by fear
Our love is all that stands
Between eternity and damnation
Laying my sanity on your salvation

Feng shui, passion play
Three way, fore play
On my knees
Here I pray
Gimme what I need
I 'll love you forever tonight
Forbidden fruit tastes so sweet
But I'll love you forever tonight

It's a chance I'm willing to take
We'll work out the rest
in the light of day
It's a leap of fate
I'm willing to take

Feng shui, passion play
Three way, fore play
On my knees
Here I pray
Gimme what I need
I 'll love you forever tonight
Forbidden fruit tastes so sweet
But I'll love you forever tonight

Dante's 9 Circles of Hell

Here is my throwdown to the number challenge. I have had a loose collection of lines for a few years hanging around in a dusty old file in this computer. It seemed like it had potential and so I dusted it off, polished it off and then applied a simple chord progression to it. Instead of writing the melody down, I just played it and then recorded it and it is not all that bad. There are so many themes here that I have 'borrowed' from the old blues men. Just a good man feeling bad. What more can I say.

Dante's 9 Circles of Hell.mp3

Dante's 9 Circles of Hell
words and music by Gene Gorski

Suffered the past 9 hours trying to reboot my head
Lost the past 9 days, friends and family think I'm dead
Wasted the past 9 years hanging on your venomous lies
Gave you 9000 dollars baby, turns out that was unwise
In return you gave me a trip through Dante's 9 circles of Hell

Temptation in high heels and lust gift wrapped in lace
Painted woman with beauty locked up inside your suitcase
Didn't know till too late you ain't the real deal
You loved me like a tiger hungry for a meal
How was I to know you were a hell hound on my trail

Suffered the past 9 hours trying to reboot my head
Lost the past 9 days, friends and family think I'm dead
Wasted the past 9 years hanging on your venomous lies
Gave you 9000 dollars baby, turns out that was unwise
In return you gave me a trip through Dante's 9 circles of Hell

Burning in the fires of hell, with no ticket to get me home
Like some tourist stranded at night on the streets of Rome
Walked out with all my money, for kicks you kept my soul
But I don't gotta worry about ever being cold
Since you sent me through Dante's 9 circles of hell

Suffered the past 9 hours trying to reboot my head
Lost the past 9 days, friends and family think I'm dead
Wasted the past 9 years hanging on your venomous lies
Gave you 9000 dollars baby, turns out that was unwise
In return you gave me a trip through Dante's 9 circles of Hell

Just remember girl, he didn't call 'em circles for nothing
Be catchin' you next time through
Remeber my name, it's Norman

Suffered the past 9 hours trying to reboot my head
Lost the past 9 days, friends and family think I'm dead
Wasted the past 9 years hanging on your venomous lies
Gave you 9000 dollars baby, turns out that was unwise
In return you gave me a trip through Dante's 9 circles of Hell

(the kiss goodbye)

God Remembered My Name

This title came to me on thursday last week and had some quiet time over the weekend and in about an hour the lyrics appeared. I write using a program called Masterwriter and they have some good deals going on right now for co-writers, so if anyone wants to take advantage of that let me know as we are all collaborating here. So anyway, it has been a stressful week. My 22 year old nephew was killed over a year ago and his trial is currently ongoing in State College, Pennsylvania. My wife is with the family at the trial and I am home with the kids. I have had some time to ponder all these events and miss the heck out of my wife. The song is pretty obvious, a look back at mistakes that I have made and the one who was there all the time waiting for me. I can't say that I am a great Christian or anything like that, but I do feel that there is a higher power that watches over all. I truly need to feel that way with every thing going on. This is for Michael and also for J.

God Remembered My Name.mp3

God Remembered My Name
words and music by Gene Gorski

I've been to the bottom of every dead end
And vandalized the halls of my life
Scrawling my name without purpose
Never scratching deeper than the surface
Of what my life could be

Easy way outs and fatal doubts
paved the roads I've traveled
Alibis and convenient lies
Were the chains that kept me shackled
In the end I got myself to blame
Cuz through it all God remembered my name

I've been driven through my valley of darkness
In a cancer eaten Coupe De Ville
With the pedal stuck to the metal
Fueled by questions I couldn’t settle
In the pieces of my mind

Easy way outs and fatal doubts
paved the roads I've traveled
Alibis and convenient lies
Were the chains that kept me shackled
In the end I got myself to blame
Cuz through it all God remembered my name

I read all the books to seek out the truth
That stood before me all the time
I climbed the mountains for the answer
That was always at my feet

Easy way outs and fatal doubts
paved the roads I've traveled
Alibis and convenient lies
Were the chains that kept me shackled
In the end I got myself to blame
Cuz through it all God remembered my name

Gene Gorski

Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania


BIO
I am a family doctor in a small town near the Poconos in Pennsylvania. I grew up here, rolled about 3 miles from my parent’s house and opened up an office in my house and have been here practicing for about 25 years.

I do family medicine with a master’s in herbal medicine and I am trained in age management medicine. I got in to that mostly for myself. I am probably the only person who nearly died of cholera in Northeastern Pennsylvania. I got that a few years ago from eating raw oysters and then that planted blood clots through my lungs and it was nearly curtains.

So after that I re-entered my childhood and went back to do the things I always wanted to do. Guitar. Guitar. Guitar. So it took years but I could finally not suck anymore. But I could never play a song by someone else and have it sound like it was supposed to. I like to call it a fatal case of white man rhythym and 5 finger epilepsy.

So I just played around and made nice sounds. That lead to melodies. Melodies without words don’t seem to mean much so then I needed words. I started writing and did a terrible job at it. So, being a doctor, I am good at going to school. Enter Berklee School of Music Online Courses. Great site and I took a bunch of classes. Song writing, melody, composition, theory. It all really helped.

So now I was writing and I needed to be able to record this stuff. So I put a studio in my house. I will cover the gear later. Took some more classes on recording and mastering and now I spend free time in there. It is my Inner Sanctum.

I have been writing for a few years and have about a hundred songs. I recorded two albums in the past few years. I self produced them and then made a thousand of them and sold them totally for charity. I was able to raise enough money to buy some prosthetic arms and legs for some kids in Ecuador and flew one up to FLA for surgery. Then the second one was used to make money for a local charity that grants wishes to th elderly in our community. I did this so that I could do something with my music and not feel like a prostitute selling the stuff. Everybody won.

Influences?

John Hiatt, Elvis Costello, Jim Steinman and the master, the teacher the seer… Warren Zevon. Warren wrote the soundtrack to my life. He also has my favorite quote, “My life is like the best omelet you can make with a chainsaw.

Goals

I want to win a Grammy for songwriting.

Equipment

Way to much

Roland VS2400 16 track DAW
An assortment of about 18 guitars. My favorites are ones that I have bought from Jon Kammerer. He is a luthier from Iowa and has an incredible talent. His guitars are the best and of the ones that I have my favorites are a strat-like guitar and what Jon calls a stage acoustic that is hard to make feed back but feeds back like an electric. What a kick to play

Amps, I have two that I love. One is a Carr Mercury. It is all of 8 watts and can be decreased to 1/20 of a watt. Amazing tone and in my opinion it is what Stevie Ray plays in heaven. The other is a Mesa Boogie 5/25 Express. Many tones and extremely big sound in a small unit. Love them both

For playing out I use a Bose PAS system and I also think that it is amazing for live tone and playing out.

I have an assortment of Fulltone pedals and one of their tube tape echoes. They are also the best I have ever heard.

My only wish is that I played well enough to deserve this stuff.

But I am still trying.

Docgoose

member since - [09.06.07]