I grew up in the punk scene and dabble in metal. I published one of the bigger punk zines in the 90s and released a couple of NW punk compilation CDs. Punk and pinball have always gone hand in hand for me. I'm mostly into early Aussie, UK and LA punk, Killed By Death stuff, garage punk, local bands and some pop punk stuff before it became to formula (Descendants, Screeching Weasel, early NOFX, Sicko). I don't go to near as many shows as I used to, I've probably gone to over 1,000 shows, but I often hit the big Punk Rock Bowling festival in Vegas.

My leather from back in the late 80s/early 90s.

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Ha ha ha, that's awesome!

I saw the Casualties a few times, but lots of allegations have come out about the singer with underage girls that make me totally not want to listen them anymore.

This is easily in my top 10 punk albums of all time:

Loved them back in the day, I remember buying their yellow ROIR cassette at Tower Records when I was in highschool and being totally blown away. Saw them once on the I Against I tour in maybe 1987. Crazy as shit pit.

At least one of the guys from Black Breath is an avid pinball player, they are from Seattle, I see him at Shorty's and other pinball bars around town all the time. Someone brought him to a party at my place and he immediately was getting the highest score anyone has ever gotten on my Doctor Who pin.

Me too, Dayglow played Seattle a lot. Also Vandals, DOA, TSOL, Descendants, Circle Jerks, 7 Seconds, The Accused, Christ on a Crutch, NoMeansNo... and later bands like Zeke, Bristle, Sicko, Detestation, The Bloodclots, Spits, etc. -- love West Coast punk.

I saw Soundgarden a lot growing up in Seattle. We used to bowl at the same bowling alley in their early years! They got to arena rock for me later in their career, but I loved their early stuff and that era.

I remember 10 years ago John's Jukes had a Punk pinball machine for sale for like a year for $800 and I just couldn't resign myself to pay that much for an 80s pin at the time. I so wish I had bought it!

And you mention The Avengers, so good! Here's me and singer Penelope Houston all sweaty after a show in 2009.

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Killing Joke is great. Refused are really great live. I like some of the more underground/alt metal bands playing like Mastodon, Baroness and Red Fang. But yeah, it's a corporate rock show with only a few glimmers of awesome for punk fans.

Speaking of the Buzzcocks, did anyone catch them on their US tour earlier this year? They were great! I'd seen almost every 70s and 80s punk and I'd wanted to see except them. They played a pretty small club here too:

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The first two Stiff Little Fingers albums are among my favorite punk albums of all time.