# Do you mix up Dream Weaver (Gary Wright) and Dream On (Aerosmith) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808 "2016-08-24T14:15:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/21 "2016-08-24T19:46:15Z")
Nope, I don’t get them confused at all. I recognize each one right from the first few notes. I should have been on _Name That Tune._ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/22 "2016-08-24T19:47:30Z")
Dream Weaver, Fly like an Eagle, Time Keeps on Slipping into the Future, and even Billy Thorpe’s Children of the Sun. I can see getting all those mixed up. But Dream On? No way! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/23 "2016-08-24T20:46:23Z")
I never saw the title of Dream Weaver in print until I was an adult. I grew up thinking it was _Trail_ Weaver (something about the way he enunciates it), and thinking, “That doesn’t make any sense”. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/24 "2016-08-24T21:01:08Z")
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Dreamweaver performed by Dream Theater. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/25 "2016-08-24T21:14:36Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > …Fly like an Eagle, Time Keeps on Slipping into the Future… I can see why you’d easily confuse those two. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/26 "2016-08-24T22:20:03Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > I can see why you’d easily confuse those two. 😉 LOL! I’m such a dolt! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/27 "2016-08-24T22:38:33Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Nope, never. But I did mix up the Our Houses by Madness and CSN&Y. I never did that nor did I confuse “Dream Weaver” with “Dream On”. And yet, for some strange silly reason, my brain keeps wanting to think Gary Wright’s follow-up hit, [“My Love is Alive”,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82DSEkHatpw) is by Peter Frampton. Wright and Frampton don’t sound that much alike do they? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/28 "2016-08-25T11:46:07Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I never did that nor did I confuse “Dream Weaver” with “Dream On”. And yet, for some strange silly reason, my brain keeps wanting to think Gary Wright’s follow-up hit, [“My Love is Alive”,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82DSEkHatpw) is by Peter Frampton. Wright and Frampton don’t sound that much alike do they? I can see why you’d think that. It’s not exactly Frampton’s style but Mr. Wright’s voice sounds very similar on that song. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/29 "2016-08-25T15:13:00Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I never did that nor did I confuse “Dream Weaver” with “Dream On”. And yet, for some strange silly reason, my brain keeps wanting to think Gary Wright’s follow-up hit, [“My Love is Alive”,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82DSEkHatpw) is by Peter Frampton. Wright and Frampton don’t sound that much alike do they? Tell me why I think I Can Help is by Ringo Star. I know I’m not the only one. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/30 "2016-08-25T15:39:08Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Tell me why I think I Can Help is by Ringo Star. I know I’m not the only one. He did [cover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj5o1n3ZJvg) it and reportedly it’s part of the [Lost Ringo Album](http://www.beatlesagain.com/barchive/lostrngo.html). Other than that I can kind of see how their voices, Ringo’s and Swan’s, might (possibly :)) be mistaken for each other. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/31 "2016-08-25T17:09:42Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > And yet, for some strange silly reason, my brain keeps wanting to think Gary Wright’s follow-up hit, [“My Love is Alive”,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82DSEkHatpw) is by Peter Frampton. Wright and Frampton don’t sound that much alike do they? I always associate Gary Wright and Peter Frampton just because I saw them back-to-back at a big stadium show in 1976. (The other acts on the bill were Gentle Giant and Yes, who were the ones I was there to see.) Of course Gary Wright did “Dream Weaver” and “My Love Is Alive”; Frampton did all his talk-box stuff and had his leg in a cast. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/32 "2016-08-25T18:30:56Z")
I argued once that “The Boys Are Back In Town” was not performed by Thin Lizzy but most certainly Trooper. I was confusing it with “The Boys In the Bright White Sports Car”. Those songs don’t really sound alike but in my defense they were released in the same year. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/33 "2016-08-26T19:53:17Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Stylistically they remind me of each other. Coincidence or deliberate? It’s deliberate. This is a common tactic in the music industry. They take a song that is well know and liked, like Dream Weaver, and then make an unknown or unpopular band that they want to promote to write a very similar song to trick the public into thinking the latter is the former to increase sales for the unknown or unpopular band. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/34 "2016-08-26T19:59:10Z")
I Love Dream Weaver. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/35 "2016-08-26T20:15:04Z")
How about Undercover Angel? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/G-xRMw0NyW0/hqdefault.jpg "Alan O'Day -1977- Undercover Angel") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-xRMw0NyW0) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/36 "2016-08-26T20:31:38Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > It’s deliberate. This is a common tactic in the music industry. They take a song that is well know and liked, like Dream Weaver, and then make an unknown or unpopular band that they want to promote to write a very similar song to trick the public into thinking the latter is the former to increase sales for the unknown or unpopular band. Except _Dream On_ came first, released in 1973, while _Dream Weaver_ was released in 1975. By that time Aerosmith had established themselves. And Gary Wright wasn’t unknown, either. He had been in Spooky Tooth with Mick Jones, who later co-founded Foreigner. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808/37 "2016-08-26T22:11:06Z")
> [@MrSquishy](#): > > I argued once that “The Boys Are Back In Town” was not performed by Thin Lizzy but most certainly Trooper. I was confusing it with “The Boys In the Bright White Sports Car”. Those songs don’t really sound alike but in my defense they were released in the same year. Whenever I mention the song The Boys Are Back In Town, I’m speaking about The Bus Boys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-mix-up-dream-weaver-gary-wright-and-dream-on-aerosmith/763808.md?page=1)