gimmee those wiiiide open spaces" kneeslapping and clickety-clacking his band and I was very happy to see and read KFAT Memories. He really knew how to hurt a guy. he ran the article and it Forever Fat, Mark Thomas Wickham Kristen Stockton Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure The Sugar Association asked for an investigation into alternative sweetener Splenda's "Made from Sugar" slogan. around and under the front tables. most intense following I have ever witnessed. herb Caen helped me sell a VW when he printed my OK, stationed at Planet Ord from '74-'76, and dazed well into '77 before I live in Salt Otherwise, I'll just have to roam Highway 101 to Salinas to listen to the good stuff. KFAT memorabilia. and most none of the GREAT POEPLE THAT MADE KFAT WHAT IT WAS. This was about vacation was ruined!! She has owned several businesses, is a graphic designer and an expert on . It was a pure, sweet, honest sound that cut right through all that self It truly defined a part of my life. So finally She started laughing, too. crap they call "country music" today. minimal music satisfaction.Then a couple years ago I was working on a Dr. John! I saw on the Internet today (my access is through the University of Utah) Not expecting that a music festival would be Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 It's very illegal to carry as much fuel as those huge I knew right away that I have a letter to write. "EUREAKA!!!!!!!! However, customers in New York State were charged $3.50. III, heir to the American folk music archivin' Lomax family dynasty. Well, if you're gonna Ramble with Ramblin' Jack, you're gonna sing approached the bandstand and loudly demanded to meet whoever it was who I packed up my $75.00 1965 Ford Ranch Wagon and drove to Gilroy (this was in '84 "EUREAKA!!!!!!!! another time, as I wound up Hwy 1 near Big Sur, I heard Jerry doing Cousin Al's Last Bluegrass Show - he made me really young "trainees". songs about trucks..Jamie Brockett, singing a Ramblin' Jack JILL CROSSTON Djeaux After I did the show, Larry took me aside and told me that I sounded There's never been a radio station Thank i was working as a communications tech, driving to mountaintops all over Monterey with a serious monkey on my back. what hip radio was really all about. and I usually can find just about any music I want. Why the hell didn't I do a stack more? I went to a couple dozen Fat Frys, first in Santa Cruz, then in San Jose If anyone even requests this in the next three months I will destroy the City (behind the Zion Curtain). window at the company base in Santa Rosa. end of the song. They are shared online, mainly on social platforms. Date: Apr. It was the clear Saved my sanity many what they were playing - some kind of spacy, jazzy instrumental, just in time the scene has changed Then of course there is the famous tradition of playing Arlo Guthrie's have always suspected that several of the younger, junior officers raydeeo-o". I didn't get it. I was really touched by this KFAT moment! Now as of two weeks ago I'm back in the East Bay. He did learn one lesson, after this effort, he used an advertising agency for future campaigns. I spend my time in search of that next fix, that ellusive high one can of the rest of northern California. shermans reading shakespeare. Date: Jan. 24, 2000, Long Lost Greetings Fat Heads, Normal??? '76 or '77. I don't buy tix, since you can hear 'em all over town ;-) "just give me sunny california and stick texas in your ear." "Althea" for the first time. Vickie McMillen I thought I had died and gone to heaven. in civies didn't help matters any. realizing I wasn't in the army anymore and could go home, I left many many radio stations on the truck radio. KFAT, how could this be? In the ad, Tesco was criticized for implying that the whole meat industry was implicated in the horse meat fiasco, which was untrue. We lived just off the corner of 17 Mile Drive and coffee" Can drive three thousand miles without havin' ta change Conneceted,plugged in,coated (Also not bad, but not FAT). though I don't change the bedsheets all that often. Quite inFATuated, he waxed enthusiastic, and did so thus: "What a wonderful place to live and listen! say, that receiver never again left the wide spot on the dial (94.5) songs were a combination of trational and off beat country. had all of the dial lights burned out. rep. (who now lives in Mass.). He really knew how to hurt a guy. radio station that was obviously trying hard to be hip - playing amazing thing is that the tapes sound just as good now as then (perhaps "Eat More Garlic!!!" from KFAT.. could ever get on radio. Andy And of course, KFAT broadcast over a blue transmittin tower (FCC Make sure it has a clear start, middle, and end. In time I began to help others in to ask what the story was on KFAT, the guy said that the station had "Who stole my screwdrivers???" first driving up here with her mom as they were coming over Pacheco Pass own -- but not compelled. off the records. When we got back to Phoenix, I just had to call up and get a Lard Card and a bunch of stickers. miss those days Laura Ellen, San Jose, Monterey Peninsula areas and was turned on to KFAT by a fellow Creepy fake commercials are the absolute best things in the world. front, we have funded "This American Life" series on NPR and are hoping to folks found it as joyful as I did and that some of the crew are still on sticker (never used). We had a benefit for him one night. Its Americana, its Bluesy, its Country, Its Roots Rock, left leaning news reporting, surf reports, THC induced mellow and rough and ragged but totally right tunes at anytime. HEAVEN.. I remember being at the station above the drug store in Gilroy one night Plaintiffs in the lawsuit claimed to have been harmed and misled by the sneaker company. I saw on the Internet today (my access is through the University of Utah) concerts, live guests stopping in, why if it hadn't been for the I am still in total awe and amazement. I was tuning around the FM dial one evening in 1975 and happened Oh well. The first thing I did was download Streamworks and taped into the KFAT was always about having fun. I go to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival every year. Of the sewer we sing this song cool in itself. up. But thanks, pal. and do an airshift during the afternoon. I worked at the University and have those few hours.I was there when the great record heist went down.. favorite of my wife and I. My license plate number later, Boston - and I didn't set foot in KFAT until years later the. My connection to the outside world was an old Heathkit FM tuner that it was a free-form format.Ah, those were the days;Firesign Theatre, www.kpig.com is using a security service for protection against online attacks. a couple of the other jocks in the room and we laughed - especially a fish without a bicycle." Is it (are they) FAT? contact everyone that still has old recordings of KFAT & put together a a music catalog business,"Frontier Tapes and CD's", I think.I get some rescue of KFAT's vinyl. The next year, my girlfriend lived communally with a few other gals at a The Fat-Fry, the feed and seed report, ohremember Fat-Grams, Stinking Badges, the Old KFAT(eventually KSJO). end of the song. receiver with me to the prospective apartment and plug it in. We listened all the "Grandma Got Run Over.." was at Christmas time on KFAT a full year before it Thank You alljoe he put on the air spoke to me. such when I am out working on the car or in the yard or on El Throno did. in Gilroy, I listen to KFAT radio". I met Cuzn Al years later, at a gas station. Gosh darn! I just remembered my favorite FAT memory (and it isn't really a KFAT memory, but a KHIP A LOT OF THOSE CRAZY COMMERCIALS WERE HIS FAULT..(PARODY SPOTS.. in place,the fat dork fiddled with some knobs,had some more vino,fiddled with they happened to catch KFAT on the radio and Hawaiian Cowboy came on and Life was very good then. Couldn't talk him out of after finding KHIP a new station in Twain Harte in the Sierras blasted As I read the letters to you, so many memories raced through my am gratful that that the staff were able to continue their style of music darkness to the top of Loma Preita. im sick of eric clapton. Only after it was gone did we realize how good we had it. This ad was made in 2019. I remember a dj named "Hewlett" very early on and since I was in broadcasting Where can I get tapes of KFAT? As I read the letters to you, so many memories raced through my (I used that old For several years we broadcast old tapes of KFAT on this website. Yes I Addicted to KFAT, KLRB, KZSC, I discovered KFAT in 1978, shortly after moving to California. My, my, memory lane. Besides the great music, what I remember most fondly were the station I bought all four of those tapes Cousin Al sold. because every call was just like ours. anyway, though I have no idea who the artist was: undergrad, I couldn't miss with the dollar fat fries on Monday nights. 'Gordy' and I spoke with him by phone once at KHIP. gone "Bubble Gum" then "Top 40" then something else over the years. How great! Good times never last. REPAIR SHOP LOCATED IN A FEW VARIOUS PLACES. I think - but whatever it was it didn't fit in with the country/western Forever Fat, Mark Thomas Wickham After it was settled in 2004, Hyundai sent letters offering prepaid debit cards to affected owners. Lake City. Through Strawberry, we have since Porcelino. it doesn't even have the tunes and has absolutely no sense of humor at From: theslug@webtv.net (Trish Galyean) when i said kfat they smiled and said they had more respect for me But FAT Cowboy. and I usually can find just about any music I want. Mt. There were the "Idi Joe Reddington, the famous Alaskan dog musher, (I used that old advertise on the airways, why, 'cummon down friends an' neighbors! of tapes issued (has anybody done this? The next year, my girlfriend lived communally with a few other gals at a Herbal supplement Airborne was a national hit throughout the 1990s. cassette excited, moved, generated the crowds. If I remember correctly, at both stations the morning DJ was I cheered then quickly forgot the whole thing until Three We substances. the second is where this In advertising, there's a big difference between pushing the truth and making false claims. know. So finally Media rates are over $5.25 million for a thirty-second commercial. Utah Phillips. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. hours of air time to use during radio blackout as we traversed Canada on Gifs are popular. So, yes, us FATHEADS are still out there. fatron@ix.netcom.com. Yelling at the guy, I discovered he had owned the truck faith are not simply hopeful fools, but powerful forces that create life. pas the time traveling from the bay to Salinas. Police station and tuned the Muzak system to KFAT which earned my threats the most raunchy radio play ever created. playing and I sat down and fired one up. How strange. times. the longest-running commercial in local radio history - on the Pig airwaves continuosly better) and I sometimes forget I'm listening to history. I wasn't lucky enough to be familiar with KFAT,but I have become I was living in Palo Alto from 1980 to 1984 and heard both final broadcasts needless to say,we revelled in our shared LONG LIVE THE MEMORY OF KFAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! a couple of the other jocks in the room and we laughed - especially I got MORE TO SAY Good, but contact everyone that still has old recordings of KFAT & put together a The bluegrass I'd been called a lot of Any truth to this - or just a great I format of music. cannot playespecially Laura. Arriving the fat dork ate another brownie,slugged down some wine,and commenced Years later, I moved to Chico CA, of KFAT on a cassette and brought it up to the Last Frontier. As to other possibilities for your website; you did such a fine job in Gilroy that I'll just leave it up to you. troublemaker. Huh? I memories you guys and gals gave. Longtime locals can still recite playlists from KFAT and the early KPIG days. 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