Endless creation: The artists Jerry Garcia said “never run out of ideas”Something that constantly surprises me is the fact that no band has ever come forward in a bid to do something similar to what the Grateful Dead did. “A list of song titles would mean very little in terms of what actually goes on inside the album,” said Lenny Kaye when discussing the band’s album Live Dead. This kind of artist is not a common occurrence, but when he stumbled upon them, Garcia would listen religiously. What he created with Grateful Dead was a reflection of that, as are the artists he would describe as his favourites. It’s less about how the song sounds on first listen and more about how it sounds on repeat listens.