Jerry Cantrell credited as playing...
Donnie 'Skeeter' Dollarhide Jr.
- 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.: 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.