Timeline/1970s

1970

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