Punk-rock reunions never get old, and folks flew into Ybor City from across the U.S. last Saturday to see the Tim Version back onstage after five years away. The band—a throwback to the late-’90s and early aughts of Floridian punk rock—was joined at Crowbar by another long lost (and recently revived) Bay area punk scene staple, Slinky, along with Enablers.

The Enablers
Slinky
Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
The Tim Version plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on Aug. 17, 2024. Credit: Photo by Dave Decker

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...