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Mayo Thompson


Born	1944
Country

Discography

Solo

Corky's Debt to His Father

Groups

The Red Crayola (1966-present)
- Main article: Discography
Saddlesore (1970)
- Old Tom Clark
The Rockin' Blue Diamonds (1972)
Art & Language (1973-1977)
- Main article: The Red Crayola with Art & Language
Pere Ubu (1980-1981)
- The Art of Walking
- Songs of the Bailing Man
Megabody (1986-1990)
- Jörg Schlick & Megabody
- Wild Thing

Collaborations

Ludwig's Law (Moebius, Conny Plank)
The Last of England (soundtrack)
Seite A Seite A (COWWS Quintet)
Book (COWWS Quintet)
"All Together Now" (Diedrich Diederichsen)
Buy Me (Pictures) / Buy Me (Stones) (Michael Schirner)
Kunst am Bau (Barnaby O'Rourke, Lars Rudolph)
In the Beginning (Tom Watson, Alexis Hall)
"Little Lips" (Stephen Prina)
"Digital Man in a Digital House" (Mitchell Kane)
Country & Watson (Tom Watson)
Combat de Boxe (Anita Pace)
Rock & Roll Is Here To Die (Van Oehlen)
Shotgun Wedding (Sven-Åke Johansson Quintett)
Day Is Done (soundtrack)

Music production

Main article: Records produced by Mayo Thompson

Exhibitions

Title	City	Gallery	Dates
8th Floor	New York City	Greene Naftali	October 8 – November 7, 2015
?	Berlin	Galerie Buchholz	November 11 – December 23, 2016
Go to the Window	Berlin	Galerie Buchholz	June 28 – August 17, 2019
Oily Works	Los Angeles	House of Gaga	November 21, 2020 – January 30, 2021

Exhibition catalogs

	Cover	Publication	Notes
2018		Ground Floor / 8th Floor (2018)	with Michael Krebber

Bibliography

Fiction

	Cover	Title	Notes
2018		Art, Mystery	novella
2023		After Math: Art, Mystery, Part II	novella

Illustrations

	Title	Publication	Notes
1970	Rangoon	Rangoon (1970)	various short stories by Frederick Barthelme
	"Regular Everything"
	"Gregory Park"
1971	"Regular Everything II"	unpublished
1972	"The Cost of Everything"	Fiction Vol. 1 No. 3 (1972)	short story by William H. Gass from The Tunnel^[1]^[2]

Essays/non-fiction

	Title	Publication	Notes
1976	"Autopatripassionata"	The Fox 3 (May 1976)	Full article	with Christine Kozlov
	"Review: Convoy"		Full article
	"Natural Alliances"		Full article
	"For the Sensitive"		Full article
1976		Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 4 (October 1976)
1977		Art-Language Vol. 4 No. 2 (October 1977)
1978	"Baghdad on the Bayous?"	Howdy from Texas the Lone Star State (October 1978)	Full article	on the '60s Houston music scene
1980	"Two men and a bird adrift in a sinking life boat... Last chance for a conversation..."	Step by Step (1980)	Full article	with Ian Penman
1986	"Gorki & Co."	Gorki & Co. / 33 Songs (1986)		on Maxim Gorky
1987		Unappetitlich ist das Baden im Schleim (1987)		with Albert Oehlen
1987	"What"	Durch 3/4 (1987)
1987		Polytexte: The Words Meet the Objects (1987)		^[3]
1987	"Acht Gründe, die Preise zu erhöhen"			with Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen^[4]
1987	"Lasst sie CDs fressen!"	Spex September 1987	Full article
1989	"Some Things About Multiples"	Georg Herold: Multiplied Objects and Prints (1989)		exhibition catalog
1989		Werner Büttner: Das Wichtige Schwarzweiß		exhibition catalog^[5]
1989	"Was ist eigentlich... Indie-Musik?"	Spex March 1989
1989	"Singles"	Spex August 1989	Full article	short reviews of 60 singles
1990	"Vitrinization"	Michael Krebber: Apothekerman (2001)		^[6]
1991	Liner notes	Cowws' Quintett - Seite A Seite A (1991)		CD
1991	"Blind Mapping"	Texte zur Kunst No. 2 (March 1991)		^[7]
1992	"'Merlin Carpenter' ['MC']"	(November 1992)	Full article	exhibition handout
1995	"Kauft Reagan Dokoupil?"	Spex (October? 1995)
1998		Sarah Seager: Proposal for Installation with Sarong Pants... (1998)		exhibition catalog^[8]^[9]
1999	"Sentimental Passage?: On an Audio and Visual Collaboration"	InterCommunication No. 30 (Autumn 1999)		with Bruce Yonemoto^[10]
2003	"A Recent Dream Involving Martin Kippenberger"	Hommage to Martin Kippenberger: The 80's, Paintings and Sculptures (2003)

Filmography

Director

Year		Film	min	Notes
1966		Unknown title		unfinished film with Frederick Barthelme
1975		Mostly About Rauschenberg	50	unreleased documentary on artist Robert Rauschenberg

Film music

Year	Film	Role	min	Director
1974	Done To	"melodic noise"	23	Lawrence Weiner
1976	Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors	music	24	Art & Language
1977	Struggle in New York	music	55	Zoran Popović
1983	Born in Flames	song: "Born in Flames" (with The Red Crayola)	80	Lizzie Borden
1987	The Last of England	song: "Disco Death" (with Albert Oehlen)	87	Derek Jarman
1996	Japan in Paris in L.A.	music (with The Red Krayola)	30	Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
2001	Actualité	music (with The Red Krayola)	9	Mathias Poledna
2006	Portal Excursion	music	9	Michael Smith
2015	Excuse Me?!?...I'm Looking for the "Fountain of Youth"	score	20	Michael Smith
2016	Far East of Eden	sound design	24	Bruce & Norman Yonemoto

Performer/actor

Year	Film	Role		Director
1976	Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors	performer with Art & Language	24	Art & Language
1977	Struggle in New York	performer with Art & Language	55	Zoran Popović
1980	Ghent music video	performer with The Red Crayola
1981	Urgh! A Music War	performer with Pere Ubu	121	Derek Burbidge
1991	Die Fröhliche Wallfahrt (The Merry Pilgrimage)	actor		Cosima von Bonin

Producer

Year		Title	Role	Notes
1986		The Queen Is Dead	producer	The Smiths music video directed by Derek Jarman
1987		The Last of England	associate producer	film directed by Derek Jarman

Documentary appearances

Year	Title	Director
1979	South Bank Show S2E02: "Rough Trade"	Geoff Dunlop
1994	The Red Krayola in Tokyo (1995)	Takeshi Kimi
1998	Lost in Music: Chicago Connections	Christoph Dreher & Ellen El Malki
2000	Circuit 9
2005	God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It	Amy Scott
2007	Psychedelic Revolution '67^[11]	Christoph Dreher
2009	Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade^[12]	Chris Wilson

Radio

Date	Time	Station	Program	Role	Notes
August 30, 1971	7:15pm	KPFT	Mayo Thompson: Interesting & rare sounds and yap	host	^[13]
August 3, 1972	10:00pm	KPFT	Free Music Store: Frank Davis and the Rockin' Blue Diamonds	performer	^[14]
February 3, 1973	2:00pm	KPFT	Houston Concert Houston: More from the Rockin' Blue Diamonds	performer	^[15]
August 4, 1973	11:00am	WBAI	Community Access Television	producer, interviewer	^[16]^[17]
July 9, 1994		Bayerischer Rundfunk	Mayo Thompson Records Nature on the Rauschenberg Estate	field recordings	^[18]

References

[1] ttps://wustl.app.box.com/s/gm6tc0muqwrkyonq2jfu0rroghhzg4c2

[2] ttps://thetunnelat25.com/the-tunnel-a-chronology-bibliography/

[3] ttps://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31569060590

[4] ttp://ehfilm.de/ehf-katalog/polytexte.html

[5] ttps://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31655802787

[6] From 1990: https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bITxGoUD_/

[7] ttps://www.textezurkunst.de/en/2/

[8] ttps://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21130077270001551

[9] ttps://worldcat.org/title/42249767

[10] ttps://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic030/contents_e.html

[11] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmxCiwDlRDo

[12] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tKE-hDDgZQ

[13] ttps://archive.org/details/spacecity03spac_11/page/n31/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22

[14] ttps://archive.org/details/fokpft197208ia/page/n9/mode/1up?q=%22rockin+blue+diamonds%22

[15] ttps://archive.org/details/fokpft197302ia/page/n11/mode/1up?q=%22rockin+blue+diamonds%22

[16] ttps://archive.org/details/wbaifolio1478wbairich/page/32/mode/2up?q=%22mayo+thompson%22

[17] ttps://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bc1310

[18] ttps://hoerspiele.dra.de/vollinfo.php?tipp=1&dukey=1369863

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