Grateful Dead/Walter Cronkite Connection explained....

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Back from attending Walter Cronkite's funeral, where, appropriately, "His kind laid him to rest," drummer Mickey Hart spoke of his close friendship with the newsman.

Before meeting Cronkite 22 years ago, "I had only known him as a personality. ... It was the strangest story. ... "

The Grateful Dead were coming through JFK Airport to perform at Madison Square Garden, when Hart ran into Stephen Stills. "I invited him to come over to the Garden and sing a couple of tunes." Stills mentioned he'd been asked to provide music for a documentary about the 1987 America's Cup sailboat races to be narrated by Cronkite. He didn't know much about the Cup, but he'd seen a rough version of the film that used a song about wind and water. But "it didn't work, it was way too literal. Stephen knew that immediately. He said, 'Hey, why don't you do this with me?' " They agreed to meet in a month to do it, but when the time came, Hart couldn't find Stills, "lost in Europe, no one knew where he was.


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