Take off your feed store cap and bend your mulleted head for a moment, in respect:

More here, including news about how the band and Skinner would eventually reconcile. Wonder if they ever gave him any money. The article also notes the band used to hang around the bar Skinner opened after he quit teaching. It was called the Still, and by some miracle we have a photo in our archives of Skinner in the Still with a Skynyrd albym. He seems to have come to terms with things. Somewhat. A little.