Timeline/1970s
1970
- 1970: Texas Revolution
- February 1970: Recording begins for Mayo Thompson's first solo album
- 1970: Forms group Saddlesore
- 1970: Thompson releases his first solo album Corky's Debt to His Father
- 1970: Saddlesore's Old Tom Clark
- January 7, 1971: Ad in Rolling Stone for Corky's Debt to His Father and Old Tom Clark
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Corky's Debt to His Father cover art, 1970 -
Back cover -
Old Tom Clark label, 1970 -
Ad in Rolling Stone, January 7, 1971
1971
- August 1971: Thompson hosts a radio show on Pacifica KPFT-FM 90.1[1]
1972
- 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
1973
- 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
1974
- 1974: Robert Rauschenberg in Israel
- 1974: Done To
1975
- September 1975: Mostly About Rauschenberg premieres
1976
- May 1976: The Fox 3
- June 1976: (Provisional) Art & Language exhibition
- June 1976:
Corrected Slogans - June 1976:
Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors - October 1976: Art-Language Vol. 3 No. 4
- 1976 October/November: Filming for
And Now for Something Completely Different
1977
- April 27, 1977: First screening of Struggle in New York
- October 1977: Art-Language Vol. 4 No. 2
1978
- 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
1979
- March 1979:
Soldier-Talk - 1979: Thompson producing The Raincoats featured on South Bank Show S2E02: Rough Trade[2]
- October 1979:
Micro-Chips & Fish