Track Listing

1. Flying In A Blue Dream
2. Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
3. Can't Slow Down
4. Headless
5. Strange
6. I Believe
7. One Big Rush
8. Big Bad Moon
9. Feelings
10. Phone Call
11. Day At The Beach
12. Back To Shalla Bal
13. Ride
14. Forgotten
15. Bells Of Lal
16. Into The Light

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29433 in Music
• Released on: 2004-12-13
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Joe's best
It's well known that Satch taught Steve Vai. It's less well documented that it took the teacher longer to become a musician than the pupil. Steve arrived on his 2nd album. It took Joe three.
But boy was it worth the wait. Directly comparable with Passion and Warfare for its perfect balance of composition and technique, this is guitar playing to be reckoned with. On his 1st 2 records (with some notable exceptions) you get the impression Joe is trying to show off his talents at the expense of the tunes. On "Dream" Joe not only manages to produce stunning guitar tracks, he makes great music too. There is a vast range of tracks and he masters so many different styles, the album, stands up to repeated listening. He's come close again since, but never bettered this classic work.
Stand out tracks: Flying in a blue dream, Mystical potato head groove thing, One big rush, Big bad moon, Back to Shalla bal, Forgotten (pts 1 & 2).

BEST OF MANY
He's made a lot of cds over the years and I have them all, but for me this still remains the best. So why only 4 stars? This album is so long that you could take out the very few weak spots and what you have left is enough to still have a good length cd worthy of 5 stars. However the rating is for the whole cd and in my view drops a point. There are more vocals on here than what has now become the norm, but they are good. 'Big Bad Moon' and 'Ride' are especially brilliant. The instrumentals, by far the bulk of the album, are almost without exception hard rock and heavy metal. So,again, more than 2/3 of this long cd presents Joes best work so far and given what he has produced elsewhere that is really saying something.

One Big Rush...
I remember listening to Surfing With The Alien for first time ever when it was released as a track in the "The Best Air Guitar Album In The World...Ever". I was simply speechless by the fast paced rhythms and solos that were being produced from this guy and his guitar...it was amazing.

Flying in a Blue Dream was my sixth Satch album I had purchased after hearing some of the tracks on "The Electric Joe Satriani compilation" and some nagging from my art teacher about how good it was.

The album opens up with the wonderful title track and is followed by a mix of chilled out tunes, fast solos and some vocal work from Satch himself, which was noticeably not a feature in the previous albums.

I've heard a little negativity towards Satriani's vocals but to be honest, they are not that bad and they fit in rather well, not to mention in songs like Big Bad Moon the guitar work seems to reinforce the strength of the songs.

Overall, Flying In A Blue Dream is one of, if not, the finest album in the Satriani discography, showing just what this guitarist is capable of.

Classic, excellent and inspirational. Five Stars

Personal favourites on this album are...
Flying In A Blue Dream
I Believe
One Big Rush
Big Bad Moon
The Forgotten (Part 2)