Timeline/1970s: Difference between revisions

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1970: Texas Revolution
February 1970: Recording begins for Mayo Thompson's first solo album
1970: Thompson forms group Saddlesore *1970: Thompson releases his first solo album Corky's Debt to His Father with Barthelme and others
July 1970: Frederick Barthelme's first book, Rangoon, illustrated by Mayo Thompson is published by Winter House
1970: Texas Revolution releases Thompson's his first solo album Corky's Debt to His Father
1970: Texas Revolution releases Saddlesore's first and last single Old Tom Clark

January 7, 1971: Ad in Rolling Stone for Corky's Debt to His Father and Old Tom Clark
Spring 1971: Winter House's projected release date for Mayo Thompson's first book Regular Everything II. (Regular Everything was a chapter of illustrations in Rangoon). The book was never released. In 2015, illustrations from the book were included in Thompson's exhibition 8th Floor.
August 1971: Thompson hosts a radio show on Pacifica KPFT-FM 90.1^[1]

1972: Thompson forms new group The Rockin' Blue Diamonds
May - July 1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds perform each week at The Old Quarter
1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds record a demo for John Fahey's Takoma Records which he does not accept
July 1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds' equipment is stolen
August 3, 1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds perform an acoustic set on the KPFT Free Music Store radio program
1972: Thompson illustrates a William H Gass short story for Fiction

Thompson visits Greece to record with Manos Hadjidakis; doesn't happen
Thompson becomes an assistant to Robert Rauschenberg along with Christine Kozlov
Writing for Art & Language's "Music-Language" project begins

May 1978: Mayo Thompson meets Pere Ubu
July 1978: Recording session: "Wives in Orbit", "Yik Yak", "Hurricane Fighter Plane"
Radar Records reissues of The Parable of Arable Land and God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It
October 1978: [[File:|20x20px|link=|]] [[|]] promo and Howdy from Texas the Lone Star State
October 1978: Hurricane Fighter Plane
October 1978: Wives in Orbit
November 1978: UK Ubu Dance Party tour
December 1978: Red Ubu tour

March 1979: Soldier-Talk
1979: Thompson producing The Raincoats featured on South Bank Show S2E02: Rough Trade^[2]
October 1979: Micro-Chips & Fish

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 * January 7, 1971: Ad in Rolling Stone for ''[[Corky's Debt to His Father]]'' and ''[[Old Tom Clark (single)|Old Tom Clark]]''
-* Spring 1971: Winter House's projected release date for [[Mayo Thompson]]'s first book ''Regular Everything II''. The book was never released. Illustrations from the book were included in Thompson's exhibition [[8th Floor|''8th Floor'']] in 2015.
+* Spring 1971: Winter House's projected release date for [[Mayo Thompson]]'s first book ''Regular Everything II.'' (Regular Everything was a chapter of illustrations in ''[[Rangoon]]''). The book was never released. In 2015, illustrations from the book were included in Thompson's exhibition [[8th Floor|''8th Floor'']].
 * August 1971: Thompson hosts a radio show on Pacifica KPFT-FM 90.1<ref>https://archive.org/details/spacecity03spac_11/page/n31/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22</ref>