In March 1984, six months after the band broke up, the EPs Minor Threat and In My Eyes were compiled together and re-released as the Minor Threat album. The Complete Discography archival compilation would follow in 1989, with the additional release of First Demo Tape in 2003. Two previously unreleased…
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Minor Threat split up in 1983. Creative differences were the main factor in the breakup, Preslar and Baker having become fans of the band U2 and wanting Minor Threat to pursue a similar musical direction. According to Baker:
MacKaye was skipping rehearsal sessions towards the end of the band’s career, and he wrote the lyrics to the songs on the Salad Days EP in the studio. That was quite a contrast with the earlier recordings, as he had written and co-written the music for much of the band’s…
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The band’s first 7-inch EPs, Minor Threat and In My Eyes , were released in 1981. The group became popular regionally and toured the east coast and Midwest.
Eager to start a new band after the Teen Idles, MacKaye and Nelson recruited guitarist Lyle Preslar and bassist Brian Baker . They played their first performance in December 1980 to fifty people in a basement , opening for Bad Brains , The Untouchables, Black Market Baby and S.O.A. ,…
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Prior to forming Minor Threat in 1980, vocalist Ian MacKaye and drummer Jeff Nelson had played bass and drums respectively in the Teen Idles while attending what was then Wilson High School . During their two-year career within the flourishing Washington, D.C. hardcore punk scene , the Teen Idles had…
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