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Psychoelectric Organic Boogie Rock is a term originally coined in 1989 to describe the musical style of dreamspeak, a New York City Band that performed from 1985 – 1990. Their wide range of influences - from Little Feat to Talking Heads, from Grateful Dead to The Police, from Santana to LL Cool Jay- combined with their own unique approach to songwriting (seven members all of whom wrote, with all songs arranged by the band as a whole) and live performance made them impossible to pigeonhole. The term, while originating from the band’s percussion player, caught on with the audience and eventually came to be used in New York to describe bands that combined both diverse influences, originality, and improvisational live performance into a heady mix of danceable rock ‘n’ roll. Among the bands considered to have produced psychoelectricorganicboogierock in the years after dreamspeak are Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors, and God Street Wine, all of whom opened for dreamspeak early in their careers.

The corollary term Psychoacoustic Organic Boogie Rock was often used to describe the same music when played ‘unplugged’.