MacKaye was skipping rehearsal sessions towards the end of the band’s

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 early material. Minor Threat, which had returned to being a four-piece group with the departure of Hansgen, played its final show on September 23, 1983, at the Lansburgh Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., sharing the bill with go-go band Trouble Funk , and Austin, Texas punk funk act the Big Boys . In a meaningful way, Minor Threat ended their final set with “Last Song”, a tune whose name was also the original title of the band’s song “Salad Days”.