Lyle Preslar is an American musician best known for being a guitar player and song writer for the hardcore punk band Minor Threat. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles Hardcore punk (now usually referred to as simply hardcore) is a subgenre of Punk rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s Minor Threat was an American Hardcore punk band that formed in Washington D Before that he was the vocalist for The Extorts.
After Minor Threat dissolved, he played guitar in the first incarnation of Samhain, after Glenn Danzig broke up The Misfits. Samhain was a Death rock / Horror Punk band formed by singer Glenn Danzig in 1983 Glenn Danzig (born Glenn Anzalone on June 23, 1955) is an American singer Songwriter, Musician, Entrepreneur The Misfits are an American He also teamed up with Minor Threat's Brian Baker again in The Meatmen and The 400 with Baker, Ray Hare from Deadline, and others. Brian Baker (born February 25, 1965) is an American Punk rock musician The Meatmen were a Michigan, United States punk band headed by Tesco Vee from 1980 to 1997.
After retiring from performing, he ran Caroline Records, signing Ben Folds, Chemical Brothers, and Fat Boy Slim; he was later a marketing executive for Elektra Records and Sire Records. Caroline Records started out as a subsidiary of Richard Branson 's Virgin Records label during the early to mid 1970s Benjamin Scott Folds (born September 12, 1966) is an American Singer-songwriter and the former frontman of the Band Ben Folds Five The Chemical Brothers are an English Grammy Award winning Electronic music duo of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons (occasionally referred to as Chemical Fatboy Slim, also known as Norman Cook, (born Quentin Leo Cook on 31 July 1963 is a British DJ and Big beat musician Elektra Records is a now-dormant American Record label owned by Warner Music Group (WMG and from 2004 on operating under WMG's Atlantic Records Sire Records Company is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros In 2007, he graduated from Rutgers School of Law-Newark. Rutgers School of Law—Newark is the oldest of the three law schools in New Jersey
He is married to Sandy Alouete, an executive at VH1 and they have a new child named Romy.
Preslar also won the Grammy Law Initiative Writing Prize in 2007 with an article about the RIAA vs. XM Satellite Radio.