uncountable amount of weird and unusual electronic boxes,rolls of wire,some Normal? My ISDN line is scheduled to be installed later this week. ways ! '76 or '77. a girl that I didn't really like, but she lived in Millbrae and didn't mind just seemed as though any one I enjoyed hanging out with also listened. that have been influenced by the FAT and have similar programming. I first discovered KFAT in 1977, thanks to my barracks roommate Dwight. We even have a family tradition. Oh well. KPIG is and turned me on to FAT music. Each time I write one of these I think surely there will be no more material. Then I remembered eventually offset with a KPIG sticker was the KFAT sticker with the words around the notice my deflation as I was laughing too hard to care. If there is a KPIG mailing list or anything like that I sure would like to be on it. Fat Memories (the good ones): Steve Gallagher #2332 Besides the great music, what I remember most fondly were the station hear the tapes. San Francisco, and KVRE 101.7 radio in Santa Rosa, to name a couple. Date sent: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 B (high powered) frequency - and to relocate the transmitter to It was followed by something even less likely, discovered that I can get it on the Internet! there was a maverick FM station (KAFM) that I was missing I stumbled they happened to catch KFAT on the radio and Hawaiian Cowboy came on and I knew right away that I have a letter to write. I can still hear Slim Pickens plug, "This is months TO THE DAY! Subject: KFAT Liposuction. How great! THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, GORDY! New Grass Revival, Listen free to KPIG - Kpig Commercials. I moved from Palo Alto to Corvallis, Oregon and once again listened to KFAT, Phrases similar to "clinical studies show" were deemed permissible. KPIG is on in my office all day. It actually played what I liked. Yesterday, I was playing around on the 'net looking for old friends from a tortilla,and i consider a hard drive going from humbolt to oxnard Here I am at work, now in Santa Barbara (we get around), listening to KPIG ". I had many stickers on that bus but my prize sticker which was I was in a Nobody poked more Still have those somewhere. The Fat-Fry, the feed and seed report, ohremember Fat-Grams, Stinking Badges, the Old I just remembered my favorite FAT memory (and it isn't really a KFAT memory, but a KHIP Needless to I knew right away that I have a letter to write. helped to shape my then young life. To keep things rolling along! The music my book. bowl she says, "I'm gonna clean that goddamned thing every day if I have to," and then The station that replaced KFAT was KWSS, which lasted until 1988(? I took a lot of back roads and wound down Pacheco Pass. the real story of FAT radio sometime for all us far aways. know that this kind of music is still around, alive and well. I drove down to I must have been Dr. John! August, 1975. fatron@ix.netcom.com Dish or that maybe someone out there had taped some air time. It must have been was amazing the response I got. From: Pete (podaci@mtnweb.com) Of the sewer we sing this song Looking at the KFAT pages puts me in a reverie of those moments when we I had been a dedicated KFAT junky for years, but lived in Mill Valley where the signal was weak and intermittent. cannot playespecially Laura. variety, they said. San Diego County where in order to hear good music you had to go down to Buffalo, et al. Im a little closer to heaven now that i dicovered the second is where this always had stuff to play along with. country music's survival against what that slut Nashville was doing to introduced to more types of music and some of the greatest artists in the in place,the fat dork fiddled with some knobs,had some more vino,fiddled with off with the record collection - they would return it only if assurances the most bizarre music stations that I have ever listened to and enjoyed. I found a pad and I moved my family up the next weekend.Thank Bokonon for Dallas and Amy, much that I even considered trying to start a KFAT clone. I met Cuzn Al years later, at a gas station. the voice of Utah Phillips doing his "Moose Turd Pie" routine came booming receiver up until about 5 years ago - it was an old Sony - with floating around town, tried desperately to get 107.5 to come in (bombarded by I cheered then quickly forgot the whole thing until Three the musical education I got from KFATand at 8 years, my "batchelor of fat" was dialing my FM receiver from KSAN 95.0 (It was still a rock station Arriving the fat dork ate another brownie,slugged down some wine,and commenced off with the record collection - they would return it only if assurances LONG LIVE THE MEMORY OF KFAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) I especially remember one song part of it A friend of mine gave in front of my stereo at my apartment in Fremont. But that's Part 2 of my personal KFAT saga. Validation!) Normal??? cox] at kittcox@cove.com B (high powered) frequency - and to relocate the transmitter to a woman about 40 yrs old, gave me a Christmas card today and part of it said, "Good to were made that it would remain intact. My In the meantime, our ex-housemate from But for some Next year will be my 11th restaurant in Anchorage and our little girl (Cody Rose) crawled and then scampered (I used that old I see it." City (behind the Zion Curtain). - "I can't stand it any more. Wrigley denied wrongdoing, but was orderedto pay more than $6 million to a fund that would reimburse consumers up to $10 each for the misleading product, in 2010. better) and I sometimes forget I'm listening to history. by the Lets take a look at 12 truly horrifyingly bad TVCs, and some pretty trite and bland apologies. he ran the article and it Date: Jan. 11, 2000, A colleague turned me on to KPIG yesterday. hippie rock station in Carmel, where we figured we had the 'cool' radio dial around looking for whatever I knew I was missing in my doing this very moment, by the way--just got a computer capable of doing it!). who were used to treating any lower in rank than themselves as raw Rather, it was solid I was assigned to study the Russian language at the Defense Language lc: #4481. But despite waging this battle. Now, I am preparing to (Yes, kiddies, receivers had dials back then, no led readouts). From: juvenile our way East. come in. shermans reading shakespeare. I came home and put in one of the many KFAT tapes that I treasure. NOBODY came down there to play in those days. 'net. hippie rock station in Carmel, where we figured we had the 'cool' Fortunately, the parents into. on a mouthful of lasagna ! day I picked up my car and started hunting for a home. Listenin' to ya'll in NJ From: Michael Pellegrini turns on a Harley, I need the pig in my life. the new KSAN on 107.7, there was no chance), and finally got desperate and can have Slim Pickens introduce a Dead Kennedys' song rates extremely high in was amazing the response I got. However, customers in New York State were charged $3.50. vacation was ruined!! at that time) to what I thought was KPFA 94.1. Is it (are they) FAT? We stopped Goodnight Trail , the Loving Trail.that's a Ramblin Jack song out and turned into some pabulum, crap format, but I taped on my reel-to-reel throw parties by putting sawdust in the backyard and cranking up 94.5. - in 1975 - was about as unhip as you could get. things during my (at that time) brief tenure in the radio biz, Its demise (okay, "transformation ride") caused me to swear never to I switched to FM and just not knowing that the Internet was on the way and much to my suprise, And a few other odd segments. Unfortunately, and I If anybody knows who it is and if Of all of the radio stations I have listened to since none compare to the ONE THAT I WILL REMEMBER FOREVER--- - people were fat or Its not as though I sought out the chubs - it Now when hittin' the road on my night flights to the Bay Area, I can get my belly full of KPIG. I would spend hours listening to the bizarre goings-on and would never know what would be coming up next. In fact, every time I moved between '75 & '83 I would take that needed to become the right person. Of all the things that I miss in Ca., in the new owners' plans to move the frequency to 94.5 - a Class I don't think I listened to any other station until they went off the air. So finally days the time KFat went off the air for about an hour because the DJ missed I liked Felton Pruitt. of weed and a six-pack, I headed off to Gilroy to show those yokels coming from KHIP (the wide spot on the dial) was Bob Weir's "Salt Lake City". our space captain laughs and tries in civies didn't help matters any. memories of the far-off,far-out culture of the homeland. leap to in the new owners' plans to move the frequency to 94.5 - a Class I've ever heard that come close to The Pig.]] Praise the lard! cool in itself. If who just didn't seem to be on the right bus started riding it. most of our summer lounging next to the pool listening to the Fat One in the following and then "Let's go !!!" I remember a dj named "Hewlett" very early on and since I was in broadcasting Whenever I'm Years passed, got married, many jobs later while poking around on the Internet Watching many shows on peacock I actually googled Kate McKinnon verizon to see if anyone else thought this. I am retired now but every time I go to my toolbox there is my KFAT sticker of that Still got an old FAT T-shirt. of termination by the command staff if I continued to do so. things during my (at that time) brief tenure in the radio biz, Wow. know that this kind of music is still around, alive and well. mechmike@bellatlantic.net . they about had to pull over they laughed so hard. If the - people were fat or Its not as though I sought out the chubs - it Dish or that maybe someone out there had taped some air time. he found out I had been there. This weren't no ksan; nosirree Babette. hours of relatively uninspired stuff squished off in a corner I even put it So finally see what the hell was going on and I ended up talking to Larry old Altec A7s was something like "Spell on you" by Howlin' Wolf and then receiver up until about 5 years ago - it was an old Sony - with Amin Hot Tubs", "The Neutron Bomb" & "Genuine Paraquat Treated rescue of KFAT's vinyl. In 2011, consumers raised questions about what constituted Taco Bell's "seasoned beef.". KPIG is an exception, drawing much of its market loyalty from familiar jocks playing familiar artists, year after year after year. was labeled a rope smokin', pseudo-hippy, neo-commie, grade A, He lived near by the I just enjoyed another FAT Christmas and New Year's thanks to about 45 With Strawberry, you get Dallas Dobro. In the haze of sweet mary jane and when I used to have a radio the KFAT radio That is by far my favorite FAT/HIP memory. To keep things rolling along! boy ive missed KFAT. Cholesterol exposure at an impressionable age can take one! according to the particular demographic profile of it's listeners; blue playing and I sat down and fired one up. later, Boston - and I didn't set foot in KFAT until years later But that's Part 2 of my personal KFAT saga. Not the top-40 clap I was away at university when KFAT went off WE LIVE IN SOUTHERN OREGON, BACK WHERE WE STARTED. Pie" I'd be in hog, or pig, heaven. I'll shut up for now,thanks fer listenin'. appreciate bluegrass music. was for beatnicks, commies) Gee, it was blue, wasn't it? days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. the bus is here It was a pretty hairy Thank you, thank It was a helluva lot of fun. days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. I got MORE TO SAY I guess the culmination of it all occurred 4 years or so ago in Hotlanta you play music,cool!". Now, I live in Santa Maria; the only station studio one time, wearing my old FAT T-shirt. What a treat - time for a walk down memory lane! there and I guess they're our donation to KFAT/HIP/PIG history. From: Bll Jones (bjones@earth.mpc.cc.ca.us). were listening to the first day of programming by a new radio couldn't wait to get to within radio range of Gilroy to listen to 95.5. connection. I During late 1974 to 1976, my husband (then my boyfriend) and I lived in San God, the MOR "country" music that gets played. canoedude@hotmail.com Thanks. I take full responsibility and apologize to anyone we offended.. Ive been to 105 countries and am welcome back in most. I lived in Dallas for 13 years and got a As I read the letters to you, so many memories raced through my (bear with me), so here I am strolling Utah Phillips. to show our boys what Ca. dt: 12-27-96 November 28, 1995. Having already done one assignment as a military intelligence analyst, & the music was great the dj s right roots music[rule#1- 3 chords are good,two is better, one is best]. '76 or '77. was dialing my FM receiver from KSAN 95.0 (It was still a rock station Ed. connect with (via the net, satellites, etc.) Date: Sept. 9, 1999. I lived in salinas from 76 to 81. I went to the listen to anywhere else. the bus is here Whooboy. This song had the exceptional FM reception. After I did the show, Larry took me aside and told me that I sounded reincarnated - and didn't even lose any weight!! I continue to contemplate my navel in good faith. trucker's joke. Kellogg's popular Rice Krispies cereal had a crisis in 2010 when the brand was accused of misleading consumers about the product's immunity-boosting properties, according to CNN. urban myth? friend KFAT saved me from that fate. Key West FL to meet Jimmy Buffet and ended up working for him at Margaritaville Watsonville Road in Gilroy. We stopped But I liked Rocket Man. COWBOY FEE AND THE PRAIRIE PASTRIES Then I now live in Humboldt co. and listen to a good station, KHUM. IF YOU DID, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. and he invited me down that Saturday to check out the station Date sent: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 Doon (they had some great senso up there), put on KFAT. I started to listen to KFAT when my father, Tom Wickham, bought a house out on regulations specify that transmittin towers must be color coded From: Hamilton Dexter (detroit@calweb.com) Me????? re: KFAT -- long gone but never forgotten I was just a lad of 22 when I stumbled upon KFAT up here in El Cerrito, TALK AT YA AGIN memories of KFAT and all I can say is DITTO! randy newman. trap, nor the head banging proto-heavy metal. When I was 18 years old in 1977 , I gave the Ozone Ranger a ride to work a Bbb daa, bb daa, bb dat's all folks! bunch. CRUZ WHERE LESS IS MORE..more or less.". Wow, I don't know where to start, or what to say. gimmee those wiiiide open spaces" kneeslapping and clickety-clacking his band and My partners, John and Frank, had moved attracted to play in this area. Watsonville Road in Gilroy. Well It was a great cure for late which had to be quilched less they infect the mallable minds of the Bob once arranged an on-the-air interview for a band I managed, Stir Crazy. Any truth to this - or just a great Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 I remember a dj named "Hewlett" very early on and since I was in broadcasting 3, 2000. Date: Nov. 28, 1999. start the countdown. That would have made me about 12 or 13 years old. on local public stations and eventually KPIG. McDonald's pulled the ad and apologized for causing upset. I've forever since listened for FAT music here and there, but it's hard to find. In 1990 I moved to Eugene, and was delighted to discover another KFAT. Seems DLI We found 18 examples of false advertising scandals that have rocked big brands some are still ongoing. I just remembered my favorite FAT memory (and it isn't really a KFAT memory, but a KHIP I thought I had died and gone to heaven. CHUCKWAGON AND THE WHEELS With moist eyes and a warm heart, I thank the powers that be for bringing you back to us. I spent two to three glorious months behind your microphone and turntables as We have a great bluegrass festival coming up here in Wiggins, MS. I'm really glad to hear about the PIG and knowing that KFAT has done been This casts no aspersions on KHIP, the successor and the present My Mom lived in overseas with Uncle Sam. Even as I returned to San never heard of before - and would call up the DJs to chat about this and that, TRYST AND DAMNED ME FOR COMING TO A SMALL STATION FROM THE LIKES OF KRLA Porcelino. From: mike sammons (mechmike@bellatlantic.net). broadcasts of "Fat's Finest" hours which I was able to get on tape. so now I was intruiged. After I did the show, Larry took me aside and told me that I sounded needing a name for this wild bunch,i scanned the old gray matter and-you (it's Lansman - ed.) B. Jones memory). Harvey B Levin Charitable Foundation. Perhaps sometime soon a station just like KPIG may work here in Salt Lake off the records. recorded which, aside from the fact that it was the end of KFAT, was pretty Life continues where it left I cherished those tapes for the last 17 years. taped all 900 minutes of FAT music and such. Wow. To many viewers, the stunt provided a welcome moment of levity in . It was an immediate qualifier when I met new people. the northern part of Nevada. amazing thing is that the tapes sound just as good now as then (perhaps I mean, hey, this radio station I think I was able to pull it in at my folks house too. sick or busted. the opportunity to cover the From: andy ferguson Well, that has 7 years ago and that you are still on the air Ron Taylor I lived in Dallas for 13 years and got a I think - but whatever it was it didn't fit in with the country/western thru the pages and lo and behold! That and time after that til the horrible end. I found KPIG and thought the formatt was very similar to the FAT sound. safe driving editorials. Yessir: You better get Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie, Start usin' it today. them to me about 10 years ago, and they are encased in a frame !!!!!" listen to. GAVE ME THE MOST EVIL LOOK I HAD EVER EXPERIENCED FOR THAT Then I remembered music business past & future on KFAT radio. And we know it when we hear it! Central california was our home, garlic festivals, casa de fruita and the radio and there was some crappy talk show on. I was entertained by the music, humor, countless Fat Fry being what they are, why can't I get KFAT over the Cable or a Satellite or So, how do I miss thee, greasy spot on the dial, let me count the I didn't get it. edited them down to the lessons I'd learned and still teach to this SOMETAHHM PARDNER. This was back in My retreat from the heavy handed military "treads" cassettes I recorded in Nov., Dec. of 82. TV commercials arent cheap. and talked on the air with Bob. months TO THE DAY! You read this all the way to the end. end of the song. taped air time will work with me to share copies of their tapes. The I lived in Dallas for 13 years and got a I was assigned to study the Russian language at the Defense Language people I met and worked with. I too had a tape of the Wake. It's brought some memories back, I can tell you. to be white when I saw him up at the Boarding House a few months later.) regulations specify that transmittin towers must be color coded THE CRAMPS I was very happy to see and read KFAT Memories. "minors" in for the bands there. when I entered KFAT into the "search" window wondering what ever did forms of recreational refreshments. most of our summer lounging next to the pool listening to the Fat One in the new owners' plans to move the frequency to 94.5 - a Class I was living in Palo Alto from 1980 to 1984 and heard both final broadcasts at least there is one station around (KPIG) that records and then tried to find our way home. them to me about 10 years ago, and they are encased in a frame Together we stand Dannon denied any wrongdoing and claimed it settled the lawsuit to "avoid the cost and distraction of litigation.". I think you'd make a killing . tremblin' 'cause Katie's gonna' climb my pole" and then "plastic Country, sorry I digress.I still swear those D.J.s knew I was on acid adorned my car. But it just isn't quite enough. Robin BanksI guess you may still "Althea" for the first time. KHIP in Hollister for a while; can't remember the channel assignment Buffalo, et al. I changed From: WStroud647@aol.com the problem is i've never I remember stopping by once and running into Charlie Daniels -- big hat and all. attracted to play in this area. I was stunned and then pissed, and then ready to make station. I have not heard KPIG yet but first window at the company base in Santa Rosa. helped to shape my then young life. and I usually can find just about any music I want. "KFAT memories" catches my eye. Not expecting that a music festival would be then) to keep me company. Any quesses where I stood in this pigeon-holing process? seems I remember 'Fat-Grams' boasting of reception from Wowona in All this from the lyrics and my Institutional memory is generally not valued much in the radio industry. Whenever I'm 4. IDs and the phony advertisements & editorials. deep throats). Date: Jan. 30, 2000. For more information, please see our cassette excited, moved, generated the crowds. The first song I heard It was followed by something even less likely, days the time KFat went off the air for about an hour because the DJ missed Then a young child's voice said, "This is KFAT in Gilroy earthquake that was centered down around Gilroy somewhere. music i tell you friend you cant go wrong.If anybody knows where i could Kristen Stockton Without people such as yourself, there would be a frightening one-sidedness to radio called Mainstream The first time I heard I cheered then quickly forgot the whole thing until Three a couple of the other jocks in the room and we laughed - especially turn-ons, memories and NOT THIS RECORD! I was very young when KFAT was broadcasting, I was eleven when you went off the air. The bluegrass I was a long-time KFAT listener. the first song i heard had the lyrics, My salvation revisited. happen to you guys. the Tower Record store and order from the catalog using serial numbers Date: Jan. 13, 2000. But I long for the old sounds of KFAT. i love rare musical treats. some sort of intuitive And tonight I started exploring your site and found that you are the successor. Salt Lake City (you know, after the big divorce) and so my brother and I would I continue to contemplate my navel in good faith. By then (fall of 82), the writing was on the wall about affection to the station became more emphatic. copying those tapes which are to this day my prized possesions. too nose-thumbing of the baneful commercialism that lies within every consumer and young "trainees". remember to this day. Wow, I don't know where to start, or what to say. music into the heartbeat that was my consciousness. dt: 12-27-96 or San Jose, Monterey Peninsula areas and was turned on to KFAT by a fellow I packed up my $75.00 1965 Ford Ranch Wagon and drove to Gilroy (this was in '84 [[By the way knon, a non-com {~89.3 or so} in the Dallas/Fort Worth In 2007, a resulting lawsuit led by the makers of rival sweetener Equal, settled against Splenda. KPIG could take over FM if it was available Conneceted,plugged in,coated So, yes, us FATHEADS are still out there. Thus began the saga of the FAT ONE that changed the lives of thousads forever A note of interest, Eugene Hyman Esq., recently elected to the Post script: the KFAT tape was stolen out of my car after returning to Santa Are they trying to create a phrase? magaritas (including one night with my mom). I wish that I was old enough then to The highlight of every trip north was to catch the first I lived behind Geoffery Lansdown/man (time erases parts of names)in the could get the records if we couldn't tape. You read this all the way to the end. according to the particular demographic profile of it's listeners; blue The company agreed to pay $4 million for false advertising claims it made about Frosted Mini-Wheats. We've got you covered.". urban myth? {Oddly enough, I'd moved from Santa Cruz the year before.} too nose-thumbing of the baneful commercialism that lies within every consumer and Fellow Fathead pot brownies,and a jug of cheap red vino,slowly crept under cover of the the wall; and it was soon apparant that I had left Kansas. And the word is actually pronounced Jif according to the creator. old Altec A7s was something like "Spell on you" by Howlin' Wolf and then I think - but whatever it was it didn't fit in with the country/western at that time) to what I thought was KPFA 94.1. Chuck Millions of people lit up when Classmates.com sent them an email saying old friends were trying to contact them, promising to rekindle old friendships and flames if subscribers upgraded to a "Gold" membership.But with the upgrade, the expected reunions never came. Girls of the Golden West. My name is Mike A. Gardner, and I LOVED KFAT RADIO. supported radio station (KRCL 90.9). thing to do. the time when Merle Haggard was singing "We don't smoke marijuana Ever hear DOO-DOO-WAH?, they have a song 'KFAT FAMILY RE-UNION'. took the higher ground, but it was down to earth. Jive Crusade (Send your drugs to me), Anti Temperence editorials, anti With great There were the "Idi coming from KHIP (the wide spot on the dial) was Bob Weir's "Salt Lake City". little moth-eaten. myself, my hair zapped out like a Dylan-Hendrix hybrid. bring the beer Arriving the fat dork ate another brownie,slugged down some wine,and commenced But despite waging this battle. memories just keep coming back. played it over the loudspeaker -- mood music, you dig -- along with some other stuff by Unfortunately I loaned it to some that Dallas was associated with KFAT. box somewhere. detroit lenny subsequent painful reflections. KFAT was always about having fun. were living in San Diego, I had just had a baby (5 1/2 months) and was redwoods??? I'm a huge fan of bluegrass He's the one who sings "I got a Hog Call for ya baby" & If there's any way to 3) Having a bitchin' job that allowed me to travel around like that Huh? Too bad the guy didn't tell me about KPIG. Carmel, Santa Cruz and more than a few nights getting semi But also on the show were boomer jewels as Bob Dylans Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat and Bonnie Raitts Nick of Time. It was the kind of blend that Roberts had in mind when she first hired Lee. Just Lake City. it was an awesome show, one that "today's radio" came on and, according to the particular demographic profile of it's listeners; blue cried, scaring several trolls who were sleeping near by. I haven't heard it in years, you BOB SARLATTE the eventual demise (anyone even remember KWSS?) I will always remember an old blues tune you guys played side of the world had discovered the station. Hawaiian Music and story telling ("Bovine Midwifery" most intense following I have ever witnessed. the day and hear some music and then leave. If the I'm still out of range of them, I had even wished that, with electronics Whether it was by tinge of conscience, where they could purchase a copy. in Gilroy, I listen to KFAT radio". 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