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
July 1970: Frederick Barthelme's first book, Rangoon, illustrated by Mayo Thompson is published by Winter House
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. The book was never released. Illustrations from the book were included in Thompson's exhibition 8th Floor in 2015.
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