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Nomadbiker JD @NomadbikerJ

1 day ago

@FreckledFace111 Is that the woman from the X-Files?🤠

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Nomadbiker JD @NomadbikerJ

5 days ago

Had a guy ask me what year my bike was when I was at the store today. I told him and then he surprised me by saying, they may that in blue too. I said they made some in yellow also. The bike I was on was my CVO, only about 800 made that looks just like mine.

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Nomadbiker JD @NomadbikerJ

5 days ago

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NomadbikerJ's tweet photo. 😮😂😂😂 https://t.co/tjlo1kz58l

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Nomadbiker JD @NomadbikerJ

7 days ago

LOL, I went to that school!

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9 days ago

Forby Leonard Skinner (1933–2010) was a physical education teacher and basketball coach at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida—his own alma mater. In the late 1960s he enforced the school’s dress code against long hair on male students. Several future Lynyrd Skynyrd members, including Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Rossington, and Bob Burns, were students there. Skinner sent some of them (notably Rossington) to the principal’s office over hair length. He later emphasized he was simply applying school rules, not acting out of personal animosity, and noted that only the principal could issue suspensions. The young musicians, then playing under names such as My Backyard and One Percent, turned the repeated run-ins into a running joke. When they needed a band name, they adopted a phonetic, Southern-accented version of their coach’s name—first as Leonard Skinnerd, then the more familiar Lynyrd Skynyrd—as a tongue-in-cheek tribute and mild act of payback. The distinctive spelling stuck by around 1970. By the mid-1970s the long-haired Jacksonville kids were international stars with hits including “Free Bird,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” and “Simple Man.” Skinner, who had left teaching for real estate and bar ownership, initially had mixed feelings (and never cared for rock music). Relations later warmed: the band played at a Jacksonville bar he owned called The Still, he allowed a photo of his “Leonard Skinner Realty” sign (complete with phone number) to appear on the inner sleeve of their 1975 album Nuthin’ Fancy, and he introduced them at a homecoming concert in Jacksonville. Fans who spotted the number on the album sleeve would sometimes call him at odd hours; he fielded the “Far out!” reactions with good humor. His family later said he eventually took a certain pride in the association. The photo in the post matches a well-documented 1977 image of Skinner holding Nuthin’ Fancy outside The Still. He died in 2010 at age 77 after living with Alzheimer’s. Gary Rossington later wrote that the coach “had such a profound impact on our youth that ultimately led us to naming the band… after him. Looking back, I cannot imagine it any other way.” One of the more unlikely origin stories in Southern rock began with a no-nonsense gym teacher and a dress-code rule. In the late 1960s, Leonard Skinner taught physical education and coached basketball at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville. School policy required short hair on boys; Skinner enforced it. A group of students more interested in guitars than gym class—among them the future core of Lynyrd Skynyrd—kept running afoul of the rule and were sent to the principal’s office. What started as disciplinary friction became band lore. Looking for a new name after earlier monikers failed to stick, they settled on a local-accented version of their old coach’s name. The joke name outlasted the high-school hassles and became one of the most recognizable brands in American rock. Years later the same coach, by then a realtor and bar owner, appeared on the inner sleeve of Nuthin’ Fancy, introduced the band at a hometown show, and watched his former students turn the mild act of rebellion into a career. The hair rule he once enforced is now a footnote in rock history. 🔥

TrumpGirlLove's tweet photo. Forby Leonard Skinner (1933–2010) was a physical education teacher and basketball coach at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida—his own alma mater.

In the late 1960s he enforced the school’s dress code against long hair on male students. Several future Lynyrd Skynyrd members, including Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Rossington, and Bob Burns, were students there.

Skinner sent some of them (notably Rossington) to the principal’s office over hair length. He later emphasized he was simply applying school rules, not acting out of personal animosity, and noted that only the principal could issue suspensions.

The young musicians, then playing under names such as My Backyard and One Percent, turned the repeated run-ins into a running joke. When they needed a band name, they adopted a phonetic, Southern-accented version of their coach’s name—first as Leonard Skinnerd, then the more familiar Lynyrd Skynyrd—as a tongue-in-cheek tribute and mild act of payback.

The distinctive spelling stuck by around 1970.

By the mid-1970s the long-haired Jacksonville kids were international stars with hits including “Free Bird,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” and “Simple Man.” Skinner, who had left teaching for real estate and bar ownership, initially had mixed feelings (and never cared for rock music).

Relations later warmed: the band played at a Jacksonville bar he owned called The Still, he allowed a photo of his “Leonard Skinner Realty” sign (complete with phone number) to appear on the inner sleeve of their 1975 album Nuthin’ Fancy, and he introduced them at a homecoming concert in Jacksonville.

Fans who spotted the number on the album sleeve would sometimes call him at odd hours; he fielded the “Far out!” reactions with good humor.

His family later said he eventually took a certain pride in the association.

The photo in the post matches a well-documented 1977 image of Skinner holding Nuthin’ Fancy outside The Still. He died in 2010 at age 77 after living with Alzheimer’s. Gary Rossington later wrote that the coach “had such a profound impact on our youth that ultimately led us to naming the band… after him. Looking back, I cannot imagine it any other way.”

One of the more unlikely origin stories in Southern rock began with a no-nonsense gym teacher and a dress-code rule. In the late 1960s, Leonard Skinner taught physical education and coached basketball at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville.

School policy required short hair on boys; Skinner enforced it. A group of students more interested in guitars than gym class—among them the future core of Lynyrd Skynyrd—kept running afoul of the rule and were sent to the principal’s office.

What started as disciplinary friction became band lore. Looking for a new name after earlier monikers failed to stick, they settled on a local-accented version of their old coach’s name.

The joke name outlasted the high-school hassles and became one of the most recognizable brands in American rock. Years later the same coach, by then a realtor and bar owner, appeared on the inner sleeve of Nuthin’ Fancy, introduced the band at a hometown show, and watched his former students turn the mild act of rebellion into a career.

The hair rule he once enforced is now a footnote in rock history. 🔥

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8 days ago

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