Alice in Chains: AIC 23 (2013)

Jerry Cantrell: Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr.

Quotes 

• Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : I wouldn't say that I was introduced to the sound of Alice in Chains. I would say that... that Jerry Cantrell fella has been introduced to me. Let's say about 75% of the material from that band is from me. About 1985 he was at every one of my shows, that kid followed me around all summer.

  Alan Poole McLard : So Jerry Cantrell followed you around?

  Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : That's right. I'm a big influence in his. You know that song "Man in the Box"?

  Alan Poole McLard : Yeah.

  Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : That was about me, you know, being on some hard times.

  Alan Poole McLard : You wrote "Man in the Box"?

  Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : It was called "Man in Hock". "I'm the man in hock. I had to sell my shit."

• Alan Poole McLard : The new record... first of all, the title, "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here". What's that mean to you?

  Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : Well, that's just a fact. The Earth is only six thousand years old.

  Alan Poole McLard : Seriously?

  Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : The devil put the dinosaurs here to fool ya.

• Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : [listening to "Voices"]  Cantrell ripped me off again. Goddammit!

• Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : Shit, I just fucking remember, it's his fucking birthday!

  Alan Poole McLard : Whose?

  Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : Man here. You've seen that movie with Richard Harris, right? "A Man Called Horse"?

  Alan Poole McLard : Yes.

  Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : Well, this is a horse called Man. I was gonna have a little birthday party for him.

• Alan Poole McLard : We can't sing Happy Birthday.

  Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : Oh, we're gonna sing Happy Birthday.

  Alan Poole McLard : I don't have clearance, it's a copyrighted song and it's very expensive to use it.

  Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : You think I'm worried about copyrights? Shit, people been ripping me off for years! Let's sing it, Goddammit!

  [starts singing Happy Birthday] 

• Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr. : People write about what they wanna write about, you know? I like to sing about America, about God, country, you know... I like to sing about my grandma going to jail. You know, things that mean something to me.