1970

The people who would later become The Residents record a jam session that would be edited into Rusty Coathangers For The Doctor.

The people who would later become The Residents record a jam session that would be edited into The Ballad of Stuffed Trigger.

The group met one of their most influential collaborators, The Mysterious N. Senada, an eccentric Bavarian avant-garde composer and music theorist, who appeared unannounced on the group's doorstep one day and decided to remain in order to mentor the fledgling group and collaborate with them on recordings. Despite their relative lack of musical experience..
the group begin recording The Warner Brothers Album., a demo tape the band would send to representatives at Warner Brothers records. The tape features writing contributions from Bob Tagney & James Whittaker.

Tim Buckley releases Down by the Borderline, the group would later parody this song as "We Stole This Riff"

11th: John Lennon releases "God", a track The Residents would later sample on their 1977 track "Beyond the Valley of A Day in the life"