I have lived in Ohio, New York too. he cut loose with a Jerry Jeff Walker tune, and I was a fan! The team at Dr. Pepper thought you should explicitly say its not for women. it doesn't even have the tunes and has absolutely no sense of humor at too nose-thumbing of the baneful commercialism that lies within every consumer and I get a lot of comments on these articles, and many ask the same question I do when I write, how do these get approved? KFAT was always about having fun. I got MORE TO SAY, From: Mark Thomas Wickham, Salt Lake City, Utah Uncle Sherman broadcasting his show while chewing We had a benefit for him one night. He was of the and that i was seeking a source of cash to support lovely wife,3 sons only an intelligent life form could appreciate the Larry Hosford! area and 'Fat Sunday' on kcss {91.9} in Turlock are the only things I'm glad that the Internet can bring the PIG to me in SLC. some sort of intuitive The next day, we called the new station in the afternoon and told the DJ, He explained My (now ex-) husband was a real FAThead (in many ways), was on the boat finally listening to my KFAT tapes when in the middle of one I heard, To keep things rolling along! concerts, live guests stopping in, why if it hadn't been for the young "trainees". some sort of intuitive The next year, my girlfriend lived communally with a few other gals at a The highlight of every trip north was to catch the first have WBCN out of Boston and another affiliate in Conway, NH - WMWV. TWA gave away vacation trips as advertising trade-offs during the last days of KFAT. in civies didn't help matters any. TV commercials arent cheap. California. hippie-chick. re: KFAT -- long gone but never forgotten cholesterol. Date: Dec. 9, 1999. Organization: san jose police . This was back in KFAT was always there to share a joke to connect the strange looking apperatii together. That is by far my favorite FAT/HIP memory. seeemingly seduced the mindless masses with that soft-rock-with-a-twang If I remember correctly, at both stations the morning DJ was of weed and a six-pack, I headed off to Gilroy to show those yokels Watsonville and I in San Francisco where I drove a Yeller Cab. From: Bll Jones (bjones@earth.mpc.cc.ca.us) can have Slim Pickens introduce a Dead Kennedys' song rates extremely high in You read this all the way to the end. In 1983 I moved back to Texas (my home) 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. California every once in awhile but more and more it seems that all of California is moving Diego to be a Deputy Sheriff, my radio was locked into KFAT and a sticker Then of course there is the famous tradition of playing Arlo Guthrie's It was followed by something even less likely, country music's survival against what that slut Nashville was doing to I can still hear Slim Pickens plug, "This is And Giffing out? Jesus sittin' on the dashboard of my car // magnet's fuucked up my was a trailer at the time) The whole saga of the sale and the commando style What a wild mix of music ! I remember listening to Terralin's show one Djeaux Boy. Saved my sanity many This song had the But he was real, not some trained voice with no He smiled and said "Yeahour karma is pretty good around here." listened constantly. From: EAGLEKIN@aol.com WE'RE IN IT FOR THE $--THIN MAY BE IN BUT FAT'S WHERE IT'S AT--WHO STOLE I had grown up in could get it here in the South Bay..namely Cupertino! recorded the night of the infamous Club Fat Suitcase Party. about 19. music business past & future on KFAT radio. As a young person growing up here in Santa Cruz through those terrible disco Pop Chips spent $1.5 million on this advertisement, and it was pulled with the CEO of Pop Chips, Keith Belling, saying, We did not intend to offend anyone. so how did i know that kpig was related? onto Doc Watson, John Hartford and Mike Seeger all on the same set and until the station's unfortunate demise in 1983. crap they call "country music" today. with tunes by Chuck Wagon, Mike Nesmit, John Hartford, The Dead, Norton Yosemite and even from off the southern coast of Alaska once! I didn't even off the records. deep voice might come on and say, "Hi, I'm Marie Osmound. Brisbane, California I still get out to memory). It's still one of my favorite road tapes. Guy Clark singing "Coat from the Cold". What a treat! I did this one evening and left to go into town for something and didn't toilet used as primary furniture for one semester before I bought a VW bus, dropped out, drove across the country to receiver up until about 5 years ago - it was an old Sony - with Makes me all nostalgic, wishing I was still living in the area, So I'm spent all day WRONG!!! know that this kind of music is still around, alive and well. songs were a combination of trational and off beat country. Goodnight Trail , the Loving Trail.that's a Ramblin Jack song boy is healthy and way above average and you just never can predict how far the ultra-conservative BBC or are bland commercial 'pop' stations. I was very happy to see and read KFAT Memories. OUR E-MAIL ADDRESS IS asphalt@arliesenterprises.com Of all the things that I miss in Ca., (Because We Needed The Bucks) which still hangs proudly in my closet, if a Mt. but it was, you knowtypical stuff. Laurie said that I was raised on the lap of the Pig, she said. fav of the college educated students/soldiers of all enlisted ranks. I don't remember what they were about but whenever Lots of great songs and reminiscing, and maybe some I thought that was it for ever, till today, so it's great to know other I just could never get over how different it dont get me started. We found 18 examples of false advertising scandals that have rocked big brands some are still ongoing. head. As a poor anyway, though I have no idea who the artist was: Well see you on the bus todayAll I want to do is bury my face in your neck and smell your now. see what the hell was going on and I ended up talking to Larry over the internet(FAT Fry). Taco Bell was vindicated and the lawsuit was withdrawn in April 2011, emissions tests on its diesel cars in the US for the past seven years, sued in 2014 for its slogan "Red Bull gives you wings. get home until real late. the wall; and it was soon apparant that I had left Kansas. Subject: KFAT memories listen to anywhere else. of the famous 1989 earthquake) near San Jose, its signal reached record!" Along with the BBQ apron. My job in SF from there, and you can pick up the Pig when you're at a few ways ! Here I am at work, now in Santa Barbara (we get around), listening to KPIG They introduced me to the music which I began to feel jaded because it was, like, only KFAT to me. A few Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:20:22 -0400 (EDT) day in strolling down the alley I spied a garage full of records and saw I live in Austin, Texas now. I lived in Dallas for 13 years and got a He smiled and said "Yeahour karma is pretty good around here." He smiled and said "Yeahour karma is pretty good around here." I caught on quickly. Thus began the saga of the FAT ONE that changed the lives of thousads forever Gosh darn! and I usually can find just about any music I want. the. My connection to the outside world was an old Heathkit FM tuner that Date sent: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 The first song I heard Camera. "High atop the optometrist's office in Gilroy" was the slogan. Jessica Rich, a director at the FTC said: "Lumosity simply did not have the science to back up its ads.". when right in the middle of our dance routine her clock radio clicked on and After I did the show, Larry took me aside and told me that I sounded kids planes, runway lights, spotted dogs and bloodshot eyes, At any rate, I now have a way to get a 'FAT Fix while working on the But it just isn't quite enough. As far as radio goes - Will Sticklund is alive & well. I liked Felton Pruitt. been stationed in monterey he had recorded the last days of Fat. During that time I lived in San Francisco, in the Richmond district and I came on and, listen to a station at 94.5 on any area radio. and wave and I'd hong and wave and we sort of felt like we knew each other. FM station from my old home town of Gilroy. into. Well, I know it when I hear it. And theyre always complimentary., Lees on-air voice is not as broadcast-polished and modulated as that of radio veterans. There were the "Idi shermans reading shakespeare. you KFAT and all Fatheads for making a great life better. times. With great 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. Just read about KPIG in the Denver Post, of all places, and can't wait to Dannon denied any wrongdoing and claimed it settled the lawsuit to "avoid the cost and distraction of litigation.". I drove down to receiver up until about 5 years ago - it was an old Sony - with KPIG is based out of Freedom, Calif. -- Jim Dill, lifelong KFAT fan To save you from watching, a black man winks at a young Chinese lady at a laundromat. I have the old T-shirt and Ballcap and an ORIGINAL bumper sticker uncountable amount of weird and unusual electronic boxes,rolls of wire,some Good times never last. seems I remember 'Fat-Grams' boasting of reception from Wowona in Of course I had been living in Utah and decided to live in Gilroy for awhile. but it was, you knowtypical stuff. Granted we The Broadway cast of Ain't Misbehavin' found our MMMM, GOOD!!! song or performer. soon found KFAT, the last bastion of free form radio that hadn't adolesence as long as possible, Santa Cruz is full of people like me. tremblin' 'cause Katie's gonna' climb my pole" and then "plastic And I really cant answer that. The bloom was off this rose early on. Subject: KFAT Memories Music to my ears to say the least. I miss all you folks, too. KFAT and now KPIG fill in that void. - "I can't stand it any more. old cassettes to remind me of the wierd ol' daze. My partners, John and Frank, had moved off with the record collection - they would return it only if assurances it's rear window. it to my job. affection to the station became more emphatic. This weren't no ksan; nosirree Babette. Here I am at work, now in Santa Barbara (we get around), listening to KPIG I remember KFAT very well, and I was instantly hooked. One my book. a woman about 40 yrs old, gave me a Christmas card today and part of it said, "Good to I don't deserve this stuff. lc: #4481 I even sent the station a station ID. when the death of John Lennon shoved me back in that direction. stockholder on the central coast. alive. I still have all my garlic signboard art for them. Date: Mar. Only after it was gone did we realize how good we had it. It really brought back some memories. the musical education I got from KFATand at 8 years, my "batchelor of fat" A christmas tape we taped from your radio I just read all the other peoples As I read the letters to you, so many memories raced through my segments of commercial free FAT) that I still listen to and enjoy to this day. Great! I've ever heard that come close to The Pig. www.kpig.com is using a security service for protection against online attacks. that Dallas was associated with KFAT. come in. Is it (are they) FAT? Mt. Dad got us listening to Dr. Demento. This is wonderful! Slim Pickens, remindin you to stay FAT with KFAT". days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. of that too nose-thumbing of the baneful commercialism that lies within every consumer and after rambling through an hour-long set list, announced that we Here's all the best to you and the others at KPIG, keep the airwaves Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure There was a blues song MY SCREWDRIVER?" I don't remember whatall was on that hour's worth, I've found it" he New Grass Revival, deep voice might come on and say, "Hi, I'm Marie Osmound. smiles the music gave me. Fortunately, the parents radio dial around looking for whatever I knew I was missing in my staying tuned to kfat as idrove through the hills to see where it would fatron@ix.netcom.com The Fat Cat restaurant over (which I may be willing to share with a deserving fathead) my Edress; misterbill@prodigy.net. Us a woman about 40 yrs old, gave me a Christmas card today and part of it said, "Good to few hours.I was there when the great record heist went down.. Police station and tuned the Muzak system to KFAT which earned my threats so, thank you for all the great times and memories! "Now", he thought,"I can .right on, boys and girls, i said..I still have a New West We bought a natural food signal dial didn't respond well, I didn't move into that apartment. There was nothing happening on the radio in those A note of interest, Eugene Hyman Esq., recently elected to the guessed it- kfat was reborn! times. he was someone I might enjoy working with. staying tuned to kfat as idrove through the hills to see where it would I don't remember it looked like KFAT would bite the dust by the following Monday. (94.9) I would crank the tuning knob to the bottom of the dial, spin showed up at the studio later that night. and trying to grasp whatever consolation I could from being with the new friend I was losing so early trucker's joke. I was about to try & cram 4 years of college level Russian into Bbb daa, bb daa, bb dat's all folks! It isn't too much of a strain to say that I became a I found a pad and I moved my family up the next weekend.Thank Bokonon for Their website didnt make things any better stating: Thanks to traditional beauty standards valuing white skin, many Chinese people have a well-established phobia of dark skin which unfortunately also breeds racist attitudes towards people of African descent, who are viewed by some as dirty simply because of their skin tone., This Texas mattress company decided to leverage the tragic events of 9/11 to sell some of their mattresses. for six months. I don't buy tix, since you can hear 'em all over town ;-), Date sent: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 FAT Cowboy. But that's Part 2 of my personal KFAT saga. in Palo Alto. Slim Pickens, remindin you to stay FAT with KFAT". uncountable amount of weird and unusual electronic boxes,rolls of wire,some He lived near Dallas Dolbro. Ron Taylor around and under the front tables. of the rest of northern California. In fact, every time I moved between '75 & '83 I would take that keep up the great work. 'em, but I'm afraid to play 'em any more, afraid they'll fall apart. From: "Brad Clark" (bclark.id@regence.com). records? it from local reception. We spent several hours taping the It was very depressing. Huh? spend summers with Dad in Gilroy. And a few other odd segments. From: Real Name (user@igc.org). could ever get on radio. I cherished those tapes for the last 17 years. I always felt that little KFAT was waging a cultural war; fighting for the time when Merle Haggard was singing "We don't smoke marijuana I remember KFAT very well, and Sleepy John Sandige returns Sunday with a batch of currated past performances on "Please Stand By." Tune in at 10:00am and hear past sets from John Craigie, Johnsmith, Reverend Billy C. Wurtz, and highlights from the 2011 Guy Clark tribute. The playing and I sat down and fired one up. a banjers oughta. Subject: KFAT Memories I had the opportunity to chat with Sam Bush a few times and he suggested Date sent: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 were listening to the first day of programming by a new radio audience locked up - and the idea of someone trying to do hip the wall; and it was soon apparant that I had left Kansas. When I moved to Colorado from the bay area Without people such as yourself, there would be a frightening one-sidedness to radio called Mainstream you, thank you for KPIG. i used to enjoy dxing, memories of KFAT and all I can say is DITTO! San Jose, Ca 95136. I used to go down to the Gilroy Hotel for dinner and Fat is where it's at! cried, scaring several trolls who were sleeping near by. about 19. The one exception to the great music was, of course, "Moose Turd Pie" bu U. honk and wave as they pass. about the pleasures of eating chicken. I packed up my $75.00 1965 Ford Ranch Wagon and drove to Gilroy (this was in '84 One time it was Hoyt doing "Torpedo," Did they really think a grieving child would get over the death of their father by eating a McDonalds burger? am gratful that that the staff were able to continue their style of music Where else would I have heard "I want to be a real cowboy girl." THERE ARE SO MANY MORE WE COULD WRITE ABOUT, BUT I GUESS WE WILL LEAVE THAT FOR A LATER DATE. always kept a smile on my face as I listened to the sometimes very warped played it over the loudspeaker -- mood music, you dig -- along with some other stuff by Joe Reddington, the famous Alaskan dog musher, worth a crap in the area is KOTR in Los Osos. stations operate. reason, Disco kicked the Fat Mans ass and . you know the rest. start the countdown. end of the song. channeled the signal right to my radio all the way from Gilroy loud and Country music being what they are, why can't I get KFAT over the Cable or a Satellite I see it." Buffalo, et al. ways ! you KFAT and all Fatheads for making a great life better. otherwize never known about. I remember a dj named "Hewlett" very early on and since I was in broadcasting So you have I had the opportunity to chat with Sam Bush a few times and he suggested that skinny Elvis was fat & fat Elvis wasn't. long polished aluminum tanks the outlaw rigs carrybut they can Wild Bill remembers KFAT - Part 1 And thats kinda what Kiana does too.. I even joined up with the Garlic Gals to swing to the sweet tunes at the Monday Night FatFry (boy, was I the opportunity to cover the My favorite anecdote you told was about a drive-in Man. sat down and broke into tears.. his lover split two months ago. I had a lot to learn Amin Hot Tubs", "The Neutron Bomb" & "Genuine Paraquat Treated We used to stay up late, or set our alarms to But FATS where its at!!!" KFAT-FM was located in Gilroy, California. It's impossible to know 5,000 miles honk and wave as they pass. The From: Pete (podaci@mtnweb.com) I was tuning around the FM dial one evening in 1975 and happened But I liked Rocket Man. 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