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{{Short description|American musician|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Lyle Preslar
| background = solo_singer
| occupations = Guitarist, singer, songwriter
| genre = [[Hardcore punk]]
| instruments = Guitar
| associated_acts = [[Minor Threat]], [[State of Alert]], [[The Meatmen]], [[Samhain (band)|Samhain]]<ref>{{cite web |title=MINOR THREAT Reunion Is 'A Non-Story,' Says Bassist BRIAN BAKER |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/minor-threat-reunion-is-a-non-story-says-bassist-brian-baker/ |website=[[Blabbermouth]] |date=17 November 2018 |access-date=31 October 2019}}</ref>
}}

'''Lyle Preslar''' is an American musician best known for being the [[guitar]] player and songwriter for the [[hardcore punk]] band [[Minor Threat]]. 

Before that, he was the vocalist for The Extorts, who later became [[State of Alert]] after he quit.<ref name="Azerrad(2001)">{{harvnb|Azerrad|2001|p=127}}</ref> Despite not performing on any State of Alert recordings, Preslar received co-writing credit for the songs "Draw Blank" from the ''[[No Policy]]'' EP and "I Hate the Kids" from the [[Dischord Records]] compilation ''[[Flex Your Head]]''.

Preslar was a member of Minor Threat during their entire 1980-83 lifespan. His guitar playing was praised by Minor Threat bandmate Ian Mackaye, who stated "Lyle Preslar, the guitar player, I mean he's one of the most unsung guitar players. He's playing full, six-string-position barre chords at that speed—that's just insane. His accuracy and his rhythms are so incredible."<ref>{{Cite web|title = There's Something Hard in There: A chat with Ian MacKaye: From Minor Threat to Fugazi to fatherhood|url = http://theressomethinghardinthere.blogspot.ca/2012/01/chat-with-ian-mackaye-from-minor-threat.html|website = theressomethinghardinthere.blogspot.ca| date=28 January 2012 |access-date = 2015-09-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Ian MacKaye interview|url = http://www.markprindle.com/mackaye-i.htm|website = www.markprindle.com|access-date = 2015-09-02}}</ref>

After Minor Threat dissolved, he played guitar in the first incarnation of [[Samhain (band)|Samhain]] circa 1983, and with [[The Meatmen]] 1983-88.<ref name="Cogan(2008)">{{harvnb|Cogan|2008|pp=192–193}}</ref><ref name="Blush(2001)">{{harvnb|Blush|2001|p=146}}</ref> Preslar was briefly involved with an early version of [[Big Black]] in 1981, but soon departed due to personality clashes with [[Steve Albini]].{{sfn|Azerrad|2001|p=316}}

After retiring from performing, he ran [[Caroline Records]], signing [[Ben Folds]], [[the Chemical Brothers]], and [[Fatboy Slim]]; he was later a marketing executive for [[Elektra Records]] and [[Sire Records]].<ref name=Blush(2001) /><ref name=Cantor(2007) />   In 2007, he graduated from [[Rutgers School of Law–Newark]].<ref name="Cantor(2007)">{{harvnb|Cantor|2007}}</ref> He is admitted to practice law in the state of New York.

He is married to Sandy Alouete, an executive at VH1, and they have a child named Romy.<ref name=Cantor(2007) />

Preslar also won the Grammy Law Initiative Writing Prize in 2007 with an article about the RIAA vs. XM Satellite Radio.<ref name=Cantor(2007) />

==Bands==
*The Extorts
*[[Minor Threat]]
*[[Samhain (band)|Samhain]]
* [[The Meatmen]]

==Discography==

===Minor Threat===
====Original material====
* ''[[Minor Threat (EP)|Minor Threat]]'' (EP, 1981)
* ''[[In My Eyes (EP)|In My Eyes]]'' (EP, 1981)
* ''[[Out of Step (album)|Out of Step]]'' (studio album, 1983)
* ''[[Salad Days (EP)|Salad Days]]'' (EP, 1985)

====Compilation albums====
* ''[[Minor Threat (album)|Minor Threat]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Complete Discography]]'' (1989)
* ''[[First Demo Tape]]'' (2003)

====Compilation appearances====
* ''[[Flex Your Head]]'' (1982) – "Stand Up", "12XU"
* ''Dischord 1981: The Year in Seven Inches'' (1995) contains the first two EPs
* ''[[20 Years of Dischord]]'' (2002) – "Screaming at a Wall", "Straight Edge" (live), "Understand", "Asshole Dub"

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|last=Azerrad|first=Michael|title=Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981–1991|url=https://archive.org/details/ourbandcouldbeyo00mich|url-access=registration|year=2001|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|isbn=0-316-78753-1}}
*{{cite book|last=Blush|first=Steven|author-link=Steven Blush|title=[[American Hardcore: A Tribal History]]|year=2001|publisher=Feral House|isbn=978-0-922915-71-2|editor=George Petros|editor-link=George Petros}}
*{{cite web|last=Cantor|first=Carla|title=Successful punk artist, former music industry executive-turned-law-student earns accolades in new arena|url=http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2007-05-29.3499861600/article.2007-05-29.8588010620/articlepage.2007-05-30.0885624356|publisher=Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey|access-date=20 February 2011|year=2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807163423/http://news.rutgers.edu/focus/issue.2007-05-29.3499861600/article.2007-05-29.8588010620/articlepage.2007-05-30.0885624356|archive-date=7 August 2008}}
*{{cite book|last=Cogan|first=Brian|title=The Encyclopedia of Punk|year=2008|publisher=Sterling|isbn=978-1-4027-5960-4}}

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[[Category:Horror punk musicians]]
[[Category:Rutgers School of Law–Newark alumni]]
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[[Category:Minor Threat members]]
[[Category:Samhain (band) members]]
[[Category:The Meatmen members]]


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