end it was basically Lyle and I banded together, which would explain the intensity and the quality of the arguments.
STEVE HANSGEN: We saw Trouble Funk together, and then I went back to Brian’s house, and he handed me a guitar and said, “Play.” I said, “I just want to tell you, I know every Minor Threat song.” “Really?” “Yeah,” and I just started playing them, and I knew them, boom-boom-boom, one after the other, and he said, “Okay. Well, here’s what’s going on . . . I’m going to play guitar [now] and we need a bass player. Are you interested?” I was like, “Am I interested?!”
TESCO VEE: I will not cast aspersions on their recorded output, but to truly experience Minor Threat’s breadth of pure punk fury, one needed to see them live. Pound for pound, the most awe-inspiring live set I’ve ever witnessed. The rancor they felt for each other on a personal level exploded onstage and those fortunate enough to have been in attendance were the grateful recipients. As good as it got.
minor threat’s last show, Lansburgh Cultural Center, dc, 1983 (Jim SAAH)
STEVE HANSGEN: Like any dysfunctional marriage, you get to a point where you have a choice: you can either break up, or you can have a baby, and the baby will solve everything. Instead of breaking up, which would have seemed odd to everybody if they had just gotten back together and broken up immediately, they had a baby. I was the baby, and I was going to make it all better.
BRIAN BAKER: It has to be remembered: this was our band that we did after school. Though it had achieved some level of success at that point, nobody had any inkling that it would have any resonance thirty years later, so it wasn’t precious to us.
Steve Hansgen: Playing those songs onstage with them in front of any audience was absolutely incredible, and being offstage was not very much fun. They really didn’t get along.
Previous four photos: 9:30 CLUB, dc, 1982 (TIFFANY PRUITT)
IAN MACKAYE: Brian and Lyle had started to rehearse with Glenn Danzig for an early version of Samhain before Minor Threat had even broken up.
BRIAN BAKER: We wanted to be a more commercially viable band.
Steve Hansgen, Wilson Center, DC, 1983 (Jim Saah)
IAN MACKAYE: There’s no question that Lyle and Brian felt like it was a conflict of interest that Jeff and I owned the record label they were on. But our position was, “We’re not making any money anyway, so why does it matter?”
John Stabb, WIlson Center, DC, 1983 (Jim saah)
“I wanted to be the David Letterman of hardcore.” —JOHN STABB
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