Timeline/1970s
1970
- 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
1972
- 1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds
- 1972: The Rockin' Blue Diamonds record an unsuccessful demo for Takoma Records
1973
- Thompson visits Greece to record with Manos Hadjidakis; doesn't happen
- Thompson becomes an assistant to Robert Rauschenberg
- Writing for Art & Language's "Music-Language" project begins
1974
- [[File:|20x20px|link=|]] [[|]]
1975
- Premiere of Thompson co-directed film
Mostly About Rauschenberg
1976
- June 1976: (Provisional) Art & Language exhibition
- June 1976:
Corrected Slogans - June 1976:
Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors - 1976 October/November: Filming for
And Now for Something Completely Different
1977
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 - October 1979:
Micro-Chips & Fish