Editing Minor Threat (section)

===Breakup===
[[File:LansburghCulturalCenter_showposter_092383.jpg|left|thumb|upright=0.74|Poster promoting what would be Minor Threat's final show.]]

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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 23, 2021 |title=Catching Up with Punk Rock Legends: Brian Baker |url=https://gnarlymagazine.com/blogs/news/catching-up-with-punk-rock-legends-brian-baker?srsltid=AfmBOoo7kqhhJRKMlxhbQa6eCmTUYvSD1JVRrHSJmEFu3NWQqJguNNsg |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250501144237/https://gnarlymagazine.com/blogs/news/catching-up-with-punk-rock-legends-brian-baker?srsltid=AfmBOoo7kqhhJRKMlxhbQa6eCmTUYvSD1JVRrHSJmEFu3NWQqJguNNsg |archive-date=May 1, 2025 |access-date=May 1, 2025 |website=Gnarly Magazine |quote=We broke up in 1983 because Lyle Preslar (guitarist) and I had actually discovered [[U2 (band) | U2]] and really wanted to move in a similar direction because it was new, unique, and powerful with political lyrics. Ian understood and it was just an agree to disagree and part ways.}}</ref> According to Baker:<blockquote>"Did we all want to develop Minor Threat’s sound to be more melodic, but Ian MacKaye didn't? Yes, Ian was right, and we were wrong. What Ian was doing was not just a band, Ian was building a community. He was so far ahead of his time and was thinking about the idea of Dischord and several bands and having this kind of reciprocating relationship with other artists. He was so big picture. But I was like: 'I want to play bigger shows, I want to tour more. Minor Threat is a great little punk band, but have you heard the [[Boy (album)|''Boy'']] album…?' I was dumb! And he wasn't. So Minor Threat fortunately stopped exactly when it did."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burrows |first=Alex |date=May 31, 2022 |title=Bad Religion's Brian Baker: 10 Albums That Changed My Life |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/bad-religions-brian-baker-10-albums-that-changed-my-life |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240614042409/https://www.loudersound.com/features/bad-religions-brian-baker-10-albums-that-changed-my-life |archive-date=June 14, 2024 |access-date=November 12, 2024 |website=Louder Sound}}</ref></blockquote>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)|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 [[Harman Center for the Arts|Lansburgh Cultural Center]] in Washington, D.C.,<ref name="DanceofDays_pp122&148">[[Mark Andersen|Andersen, Mark]]; Jenkins, Mark ([[Soft Skull Press]], 2001). ''Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital''. Fourth ed., 2009. [[Akashic Books]]. {{ISBN|9781933354996}}. pp. 122 and 148.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151016005808/http://www.itallhappened.com/minor-threat-at-lansburgh-cultural-center-1983-09-23 "Minor Threat at Lansburgh Cultural Center - September 23, 1983"]. ''All It Happened''. Archived from [http://www.itallhappened.com/minor-threat-at-lansburgh-cultural-center-1983-09-23 the original] on October 16, 2015.</ref> sharing the bill with [[go-go]] band [[Trouble Funk]], and Austin, Texas [[Dance punk|punk funk]] act the [[Big Boys (band)|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".

Following the breakup, MacKaye stated that he did not "check out" on [[hardcore punk|hardcore]], but in fact hardcore "checked out". {{citation needed|date=July 2023}} Explaining this, he stated that at a 1984 [[Minutemen (band)|Minutemen]] show, a fan struck MacKaye's younger brother [[Alec MacKaye|Alec]] in the face, and he punched the fan back, then realizing that the violence was "stupid," and that he saw his role in the stupidity. MacKaye claimed that immediately after this he decided to leave the hardcore scene.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}