First came the "Venus Twinkles" instrumental and then the version with vocals, "Venus Twinkles [Lady of Love]", after which I couldn't resist seeing if I could create a rock version, though I wasn't sure it would work. Once I'd gotten the new instrumentation arranged and mixed I added Lucy's vocals from the ["Lady of Love]" version, despite that she's mostly a soft-toned singer, then to add a bit more depth to them I added my demo vocals which I'd previously sent to Lucy. The two vocal tracks worked extremely well together, which is why I expected this to be a duet, but both sets of vocals needed to be a lot more extroverted for a rock version. It took awhile to get things sorted as initially Lucy was on holiday, but the new higher-pitched vocals and harmonies she soon presented I think are *spectacular* and so very, very good that adding new male vocals would have taken away from them. So in the end this definitely very solid rock version has become my favourite of the three. In three places Lucy sings "… who you are" and the 2nd time she sings that "who" (at 2:30 in) her volume and the note are so pure that it hits a frequency which literally makes my solar plexus tingle! Play it at least loudish and enjoy!
BiaB samples used:
Rhythm Guitars 1 & 2: Jovian Divine Alt Rock Soloing ~ Mike Durham
Rhythm Guitars 3 & 4, plus 2nd and 4th Guitar solos: Nashville Radio Power Bal Solo ~ Danny Rader
Bass: Jovian Divine Alt Rock Soloing ~ Dow Tomlin
Organ: Giddy Up Country Ballad w Organ ~ Blair Masters
Drums: Jovian Divine Alt Rock Soloing ~ Shannon Forrest
Synth Bell Pad: 80s Soundtrack w/ Bell Pad ~ Ed (Great Oz) Clare
Guitar solos 1 & 3: Guitar solo: Praise & Worship w/ Power Pop So ~ Dave Cleveland
Harps 1 & 2: Heaven Blissful Celtic Harp Pop Sharlene Wallace
Kotos: New Age Bossa w/ Koto Synth ~ Miles Black

* I did a Soren AI addition to the Lucy Vocals mix to make it a tad more smooth.
*I had to silence 5 high clicks in the Heaven Blissful Celtic Harp Pop stem.
*The 2nd Praise & Worship w/ Power Pop So(lo) is a hybrid of 2 solos as the opening fade in and closing fade out of the original didn't quite work.
* The New Age Bossa w/ Koto Synth stems are from different samples played together.

C - 4/4 - 120bpm - 160 bars - 5:30

Some favourite Waoist Adages:
#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.