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The Red Krayola

Randomized image: Mayo Thompson of the Red Crayola in Germany, June, 1981

• Discography (1967-)
  • Songs
• Gigography (1966-)
  • Live recordings
• People
  • Mayo Thompson
  • Art & Language
• "The Story So Far of The Red Crayola & The Red Krayola" (2005)
• "A Manifesto for The Red Krayola" (2012)
• "The Group as It Is Today" (1967)

Upcoming

• 2024: Mayo Thompson plans to record an album titled Corky Returns with The Corky Band

Recent news

• March 10, 2024: Mayo Thompson was interviewed by Brian Heater for RIYLcast
• December 2, 2023: Mayo Thompson & The Corky Band performed live in New York City
• October 31, 2023: Mayo Thompson was interviewed by Klemen Breznikar for Psychedelic Baby Magazine
• September 1, 2023: Mayo Thompson released his second novella After Math
• August 31, 2023: Mayo Thompson & The Corky Band performed live in Los Angeles
• June 22, 2023: Mayo Thompson performed with Pere Ubu at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles
• June 8, 2023: J. Spaceman and John Coxon's tribute album Play The Red Krayola Live 1967 was released digitally
• May 13, 2023: Mayo Thompson was interviewed by David Thomas for Stay Sick, Turn Blue Radio (interview at 39:45)
• April 30, 2023: Mayo Thompson was interviewed on F.A.L.L.O.U.T. podcast

Red Krayola Wiki

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Recent updates

• July 1, 2024: The wiki is back online
• January 26, 2024: Added Berkeley Folk Music Festival 1967
• January 25, 2024: Added essay "The Group as It Is Today" (1967)
• January 1, 2024: Rewrote Dairymaid's Lament (1967 single)
• December 4, 2023: Added unreleased book Regular Everything II (1970)
• September 2023: 1 year anniversary of Red Krayola Wiki
• August 31, 2023: Added transcript to God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It (documentary) (2006)
• August 24, 2023: Added partial transcript to The Red Krayola in Tokyo (1995)
• August 18, 2023: Added cancelled Art & Language opera Red Faces (1975)
• July 6, 2023: Revised Letters to the Jackson Pollock Bar in the Style of the Red Krayola (2012) and added Ode to Galesburg (2015)
• June 27, 2023: Added live a recording from January 11, 1995
• June 26, 2023: Added the painting on the back of Born in Flames (1980)
• June 22, 2023: Migrated Red Krayola Wiki to a new web host
• June 21, 2023: Added live recordings from October 9, 1982 and December 13, 2006
• June 13, 2023: Added Jörg Schlick & Megabody (1987), Wild Thing (1990), and the Red Crayola's lost album with John Fahey (1967)