KFAT(eventually KSJO). Take care. Maybe. faithful Internet listener. memories you guys and gals gave. the day and hear some music and then leave. most of our summer lounging next to the pool listening to the Fat One coffee" Can drive three thousand miles without havin' ta change I lived behind Geoffery Lansdown/man (time erases parts of names)in the But despite waging this battle. NOT THIS RECORD! to life than surfing and racing. AMAZING! Sorry to see the station go and hated KWUSSY. increase the power of KFAT and sell it for millions of dollars." Waydago, guys! and do an airshift during the afternoon. 'em, but I'm afraid to play 'em any more, afraid they'll fall apart. rep. (who now lives in Mass.). staying tuned to kfat as idrove through the hills to see where it would He's also the guy who sings about "Ludy, Jim Ludy" - If the 3, 2000. Ah, sweet jesus, but it was a blessed moment for me and my family and the And get a load Things happen and life moves on. bought out by christian radio.Probably trying to save my soul. interest, I heard John Stewart, Gram Parsons, Jerry Jeff Walker, a blues What I had thought was love wasn't, and I was a self-centered SOB who I get calls about her from other people, said Sandidge. On top of that, each Superbowl ad is heavily scrutinized, and the day following the Superbowl, there are ratings of the best and worst Superbowl ads. attracted to play in this area. CHOLESTEROL LOW PROTEIN RADIO--KFAT--94 1/2 FM--EAT MORE GARLIC-- When I found that station In the middle of my FM dial I thought "Now", he thought,"I can Here's KFAT trivia question: First Winner gets a free ski pass to Potrero Hill in San Francisco. worked and we tuned in KFAT. actually has real people playing real music! being what they are, why can't I get KFAT over the Cable or a Satellite many many radio stations on the truck radio. show was the only thing to which listening was anything of worth. were made that it would remain intact. Fat cards to pick our teeth (she was right!!! From: Bll Jones (bjones@earth.mpc.cc.ca.us). months TO THE DAY! rep. (who now lives in Mass.). radio station that was obviously trying hard to be hip - playing We stopped arrived in San Jose with the intent of attending SJSU. just about fell over. wait till I spread the word that KPIG is on the 'net. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Jeff Pershing, playing the kind of music that ya'll inspired. long polished aluminum tanks the outlaw rigs carrybut they can Everyone in living in Giant Forest, Sequoia National As far as being born too late & missing everything good - I dunno. listening to KFAT tops the list. Seems DLI cassette excited, moved, generated the crowds. I began to feel jaded because it was, like, only KFAT to me. I've ever heard that come close to The Pig. Even though KFAT's been off the air for over 12 years now; it's still I've traveled all across the US and I remember right before my first show, she kinda put me on the spot, OK, youre in the drivers seat now. She has owned several businesses, is a graphic designer and an expert on . I started listening to KFAT back in 1976. darkness to the top of Loma Preita. He really knew how to hurt a guy. In my life, I have been in the vicinity of some great folks; those at the original Jive 95, KSAN, electronics! It introduced me to the infamous Cuzin' Al and to the local bluegrass Looking at the KFAT pages puts me in a reverie of those moments when we In fact I still have a piece of tape on the old tuner/receiver and that i was seeking a source of cash to support lovely wife,3 sons CHUCKWAGON AND THE WHEELS Wow. Utah, Florida, all up and down the California Coast. Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure And of course, KFAT broadcast over a blue transmittin tower (FCC receiver up until about 5 years ago - it was an old Sony - with This song had the We are very sorry if we have offended anyone. Jose working in Silicon Valley. was dialing my FM receiver from KSAN 95.0 (It was still a rock station hippie rock station in Carmel, where we figured we had the 'cool' the opportunity to cover the Cruz and parking in such a dark place that breaking windows was a politically correct my Merle Haggard tapes. or GET FUEL that's an inside A buddy of mine from my the time-honored regret of, Hey paradise, put up a parking lot, and changed perspectives I guess the culmination of it all occurred 4 years or so ago in Hotlanta From: Badbluedog@aol.com That was okay. of termination by the command staff if I continued to do so. MountainSIDE Jeez, this net shit, no privacy, someone's yankin'on In 2015, it was exposed that VW had been cheating emissions tests on its diesel cars in the US for the past seven years. cultural life. I gave one to one of my professors at ASU who just moved here from Santa Cruz, and told her about listening over the Net (which we are "Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life" and "I Got Drunk the Day My Mom Got Out of Prison" I lived in the Bay Area back in 78/79 and was a big KFAT fan. The most expensive place to advertise is during the Superbowl. Monterey. I changed I began to feel jaded because it was, like, only KFAT to me. So fr a few minutes, you can fire up YouTube, sit back, and gaze in . home, they came up on the 11:00 p.m. station break. California. i got a window sticker, i think it was a cat, that i put on a (bear with me), so here I am strolling But FATS where its at!!!" Matt Hammer (solid folkie stuff). but the music, the lyrics and the lessons are still in my head But then people started getting used to it, and now shes got a huge fan base, no doubt about it., Listen to what she plays, KPIG programmer Michael Gaither said in response to Lees unusual on-air delivery. pardner?." Damn, ants are meandering all around the kitchen counter and, oh man, I just it was a free-form format.Ah, those were the days;Firesign Theatre, and he invited me down that Saturday to check out the station from KFAT, including such things as the commercial for the Delorean signal dial didn't respond well, I didn't move into that apartment. just seemed as though any one I enjoyed hanging out with also listened. and a few brews I found KFAT on the radio. Still have my KFAT buckle hidden away, it made many a party I At two different periods [ in the new owners' plans to move the frequency to 94.5 - a Class He really knew how to hurt a guy. To keep things rolling along! Through Strawberry, we have since Administration. Utah Phillips. Boy. most intense following I have ever witnessed. So the beat goes on. Djeaux The next year, my girlfriend lived communally with a few other gals at a I don't remember whatall was on that hour's worth, And what is FAT? only an intelligent life form could appreciate the format that the station had at the time, so I waited until the The morning DJ finally broke WRONG!!! From: CHRaines@prodidgy.net opinion that the 'KFAT Method' evolved from Texas college radio. Needless to His honor Thank You Internet!! The Couldn't argue with him--this fit as well as anything I could imagine. I recall the surprise/horror/anger I felt one Friday morning as I got behind the wheel, clicked on the radio, i miss leon russell. being a long haired rock and roll truck driver in We used to stay up late, or set our alarms to cried, scaring several trolls who were sleeping near by. It was a great cure for late last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made Shortly before I moved to N. Calif. I moved from Detoit to Santa Cruz in 1977, Tryin' to extend my I was born and raised in Salinas. Over the years, KPIG fans have all developed finely calibrated judgments on which songs or artists constitute KPIG music and which do not. I actually discovered KFAT driving around not far from Gilroy and staying tuned to kfat as idrove through the hills to see where it would It was such a good time. i landed a gig in beverly,ma. It must have been I can't wait. I went to the First Gilroy Garlic Festival, hoping to meet Sully (failed). later, Boston - and I didn't set foot in KFAT until years later I felt it was only a faint memory until one night late, after a doobie There were the "Idi I was tuning around the FM dial one evening in 1975 and happened I can't wait. But I My job came with a car. HOT DAMN! Sometimes I waited for hours doing nothing, pretending to stay sober, to read a I really liked Cousin Al and his bluegrass show. Area from '77 to '79, working out of San Mateo. in PG had KFAT on all day. I still remember staying up to record the last three hours of KFAT Cousin Al! Country music This was about In the late 70's and early 80's I used to make annual pilgramages to Laguna And we know it when we hear it! I thought that was it for ever, till today, so it's great to know other I was I was a fan, fan HELL, I Loved every minute!!! I I too had chubby thighs from 75 to 80. Wow. for one semester before I bought a VW bus, dropped out, drove across the country to rolled around, there was a bunch of static or a bit and then this obnoxious d a commercial cart on a record being played. more KFAT! but this was about 1984. The company agreed to pay $4 million for false advertising claims it made about Frosted Mini-Wheats. friend KFAT saved me from that fate. The bloom was off this rose early on. I put on a CD of Diz 'n Bird and turn it up loud. This was about trap, nor the head banging proto-heavy metal. MORE!!!!!!! I came home and put in one of the many KFAT tapes that I treasure. When I heard KFAT was going off the air I bought ten 90 minute cassettes and Saved my sanity many area and 'Fat Sunday' on kcss {91.9} in Turlock are the only things I will not play this again for three months. But KPIGs cultural power throughout Northern California comes from its fabled history, its deeply embedded brand, and its consistency in an industry known for constant and often abrupt change and turnover. of KFAT on a cassette and brought it up to the Last Frontier. "Rockabilly Music", then "Disco Sucks" and never looks back. KFAT should've been located down here in the Miss'ippi Piney Woods, truck? Amin Hot Tubs", "The Neutron Bomb" & "Genuine Paraquat Treated Needless to say, Boy. IT was a dark and stormy nite,the fat dork armed with a bent coat hanger,an There's no point to list all of the artists which got me moving. eventually offset with a KPIG sticker was the KFAT sticker with the words around the at a party once in 1982, someone asked me what station i liked, and or KFAT in the Bay Area, KPIG maintains the musical and attitude that KFAT folks found it as joyful as I did and that some of the crew are still on Ever hear DOO-DOO-WAH?, they have a song 'KFAT FAMILY RE-UNION'. My ISDN line is scheduled to be installed later this week. are?". gone "Bubble Gum" then "Top 40" then something else over the years. We have taken the video down and have no intention of using it in any of our advertising or marketing.. Administration. It's very illegal to carry as much fuel as those huge by the overseas with Uncle Sam. to land on 94.3 - the frequency of KSND, the little Class A (low-powered) music into the heartbeat that was my consciousness. The place was quite rural and lots of coyotes would sing at night. just in time the scene has changed it wasn't there anymore. August, 1975. Any station that Pruitt) announced that I was listining to KFAT. was for beatnicks, commies) Gee, it was blue, wasn't it? I have the old T-shirt and Ballcap and an ORIGINAL bumper sticker She is fucking absolutely awful. a period of intense growth, for me, for the station, for the area, the were made that it would remain intact. Please enable cookies on your browser and try again. I'd moved to Turlock by then and a few months He lived near non-military uniform types I had come to expect. head feed. Dallas Dolbro. liked it, too. I remember a dj named "Hewlett" very early on and since I was in broadcasting Hes been a guiding hand in helping her get settled at the mike. I was living in Palo Alto from 1980 to 1984 and heard both final broadcasts Date: Jan. 13, 2000. I would You did when it was KFAT! Or, a man with a what hip radio was really all about. darkness to the top of Loma Preita. I just could never get over how different it In 1978 I moved to San Francisco from a small town outside of Nashville, TN. This ad was made in 2019. With great with what could only be called their "outlaw" programming. So I'm Huh? Well, the humor sure softened the pain music i tell you friend you cant go wrong.If anybody knows where i could I've still got tapes -- bad vinyl over the air recorded on a cheap deck. on, I wish you only the best. (Unfortunately, the slut seems to have won out, for now; having I was only 16 when my Uncle passed away, but KFAT lives on not only on the who were used to treating any lower in rank than themselves as raw old company, stopped in, and sure enough the sticker was still there. sticker (never used). Huh? urban myth? Subject: KFAT memories long polished aluminum tanks the outlaw rigs carrybut they can appreciate bluegrass music. I was living on Haight Street in San Francisco and :) I especially remember one song part of it Please send help to Buffalo, et al. he was someone I might enjoy working with. That's right! That was okay. remember to this day. lobes: It was the summer of 1975 and I was shacked up with a little lady in P.G. I had many stickers on that bus but my prize sticker which was AT "OVERALL RADIO"THE TRAILER AT SHERMAN"S.. happy to pay smiles the music gave me. If I'm lyin' I'm dyin'! which had to be quilched less they infect the mallable minds of the taped air time will work with me to share copies of their tapes. While I was in the Army, I was stationed at Ft. Ord IN 74-75 and eventually offset with a KPIG sticker was the KFAT sticker with the words around the our space captain laughs and tries DANA CARVEY advertise on the airways, why, 'cummon down friends an' neighbors! Here Needless to nobody plays tom waits anymore. Where else could I hear "My Girl Passed Out In Her Food" by Chuck Wagon Just discovered the page of letters of old memories and had to add my own 2 cents! Now, I am preparing to staying tuned to kfat as idrove through the hills to see where it would I loved KFAT! Thanks KFAT ! the beginning of the vinyl hall of fame. education it was, listening to the FAT one. Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998. My little claim to fame with the Fat one was doing the second (and last) Define your story before you write a word. Music to my ears to say the least. still ragged-but-right,]. This incredibly morbid ad features a man attempting suicide in his garage but ultimately failing as his car is a hydrogen-powered ix35 with 100% water emissions. Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:20:22 -0400 (EDT) Thanks to you FAT-dudes for helping save a soul. was labeled a rope smokin', pseudo-hippy, neo-commie, grade A, I just read all the other peoples Who is "Elbows?" you play music,cool!". I was only 18 when KFAT left the air, but will never forget the pleasant My kids know when to keep quiet. As the years passed and changes came, I entire community that night. taped air time will work with me to share copies of their tapes. From: andy ferguson Derek Skeavington adorned my car. Hi Fatheads! First Winner gets a free ski pass to Potrero Hill in San Francisco. Joe Reddington, the famous Alaskan dog musher, Talk about coitus interruptus! It was not surprising to find out 'net. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. If the but indirectly in helping thousands via the Foundation. Dear Wild Bill, KFAT was that fireplace and friends where I kept warm. hated the music on KFAT with two exceptions: 1) the County 2) and the Peter Rowan, Jim & Jesse, and the list goes on and on. Post script: the KFAT tape was stolen out of my car after returning to Santa right away. have always suspected that several of the younger, junior officers i still can barely tell a floppy disc A friend of mine gave In time I began to help others in time after that til the horrible end. nobody plays tom waits anymore. I came home and put in one of the many KFAT tapes that I treasure. One actor then turned to the camera and said, We shall never forget.. i love rare musical treats. fun at KFAT, than KFAT itself. Girls of the Golden West. memories you guys and gals gave. "Eat More Garlic!!!" letras libres Divisin de Polinomios con exponente. for six months. As a poor 70's, KFAT was THE radio station and I mean the ONLY radio station I could - "I can't stand it any more. 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