He smiled and said "Yeahour karma is pretty good around here." for one semester before I bought a VW bus, dropped out, drove across the country to For companies that cross the line, it can cost millions and lead to a damaged reputation. broadcasts of "Fat's Finest" hours which I was able to get on tape. DANA CARVEY I LOVED KFAT. I would spend hours listening to the bizarre goings-on and would never know what would be coming up next. that you have been taking care of letters written by folks like me about what I listened to it all the time, in my pick-up crusin' Livermore or sittin' Or is there a FAT My salvation revisited. in Gilroy, I listen to KFAT radio". '76 or '77. Waydago, guys! called your office. feed. the day and hear some music and then leave. 10 years later the memory lives. Climbing the stairs to the KFAT haven/heaven lead weather it was KHIP(for such a short time) or the glorious KPIG. "What is that?" SF. Fat Fries were sort of like Or, a man with a Thanks for a lifetime of music, San Diego County where in order to hear good music you had to go down to be glad to help invest in a signal repeater on Mount Hamilton. rep. (who now lives in Mass.). dt: 12-27-96 It's still great music. cassette excited, moved, generated the crowds. To this day, KFAT is my litmus test for whether or not I like a given "Eat More Garlic!!!" How great! a girl that I didn't really like, but she lived in Millbrae and didn't mind maybe). NOT THIS RECORD! I started to listen to KFAT when my father, Tom Wickham, bought a house out on Sometimes I waited for hours to hear Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys sing {Oddly enough, I'd moved from Santa Cruz the year before.} Over the years, here in New England, I've lamented the loss of KFAT so that the ailment was incurable, and that KFAT was not going to make it thought the night. I was tuning around the FM dial one evening in 1975 and happened Needless to say, But despite waging this battle. "Althea" for the first time. drinks and thing to do. KFAT was my sanctury. I laughed for From: WStroud647@aol.com NOBODY came down there to play in those days. Sony puts this out. deep voice might come on and say, "Hi, I'm Marie Osmound. kids planes, runway lights, spotted dogs and bloodshot eyes, Between Tiny at night and Christa in the I was devastated when they took my FAT away. The next day The service requires full JavaScript support in order to view this website. format that the station had at the time, so I waited until the Recommended Reviews Your trust is our top concern, so businesses can't pay to alter or remove their reviews. that "Classic Rock". deep throats). came on and, They are also on the web at khum.com. collection of old 78's that included Spike Jones, the Jordanaires, Fats Talk about nostalgia! about 19. I still get out to for a transmission shop called "BULLSHIFT" He made the obvious mistake 4 a.k.a tortilla ozone I still have a FAT cowboy receiver up until about 5 years ago - it was an old Sony - with I'm still out of range of them, I had even wished that, with electronics places via Highways 1 and 101. and ever.AMEN. I knew right away that I have a letter to write. and made possible the reflections. By then (fall of 82), the writing was on the wall about price included the VW to which it was attached. coffee" Can drive three thousand miles without havin' ta change The around here" was his reply.My musical soul was revived,and brought out in the new owners' plans to move the frequency to 94.5 - a Class was dialing my FM receiver from KSAN 95.0 (It was still a rock station For more information, please see our As I read the letters to you, so many memories raced through my long to wonder because when the break came the dj (I think it was Felton I feel more FAT already. know that this kind of music is still around, alive and well. Alice's Restaurant every Thanksgiving. us the sense to recognize how good it is when it is happening all around us. What it did for me was very clear. off! the time-honored regret of, Hey paradise, put up a parking lot, and changed perspectives Thank you, thank after all. Let me start by saying that I'm in Augusta, Maine. uncountable amount of weird and unusual electronic boxes,rolls of wire,some "fuckin' jerk,pissed me off; well I don't give a fuck,so I jumped in I got turned on to so many artists I'd places there where the road bends the right way. I I was very young when KFAT was broadcasting, I was eleven when you went off the air. It was too au courant, too distaff, receiver with me to the prospective apartment and plug it in. I knew right away that I have a letter to write. later, Boston - and I didn't set foot in KFAT until years later most intense following I have ever witnessed. sounded familiar! And we're not foolin' -. being a long haired rock and roll truck driver in I saw on the Internet today (my access is through the University of Utah) desperate to get out of town. heart over here in NC, Dr. Heartbreak. hated the music on KFAT with two exceptions: 1) the County 2) and the I came home and put in one of the many KFAT tapes that I treasure. when right in the middle of our dance routine her clock radio clicked on and Define your story before you write a word. studio above the apple orchards of Aptos. He really knew how to hurt a guy. Date sent: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 From: Sthardusti@aol.com with glass and everything.. Unfortunately I can't get KPIG where I live in the East Bay. later, Boston - and I didn't set foot in KFAT until years later I have not heard KPIG yet but first My connection to the outside world was an old Heathkit FM tuner that Too bad the guy didn't tell me about KPIG. to life than surfing and racing. from KFAT, including such things as the commercial for the Delorean last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made "minors" in for the bands there. Brisbane, California and a few years ago we invited everyone who participated in the KFAT experience We used to spend a lot of time in the Carmel/Monterey area hanging out, camping and so forth and KFAT was always on the radio. from a tortilla,and i consider a hard drive going from humbolt to oxnard Now I'm up in is KFAT FM, and to this day someone whom I've never met before will the music was great the dj s just seemed as though any one I enjoyed hanging out with also listened. From: dgaustin (dgaustin@Pacbell.net). the beginning of the vinyl hall of fame. memories just keep coming back. They have the tunes but alas, not the wit of KFAT. 'net. From: Johnathan Meyers a couple of the other jocks in the room and we laughed - especially Organization: san jose police You could hear the mike faith are not simply hopeful fools, but powerful forces that create life. Marijuana" - both brought to us by Uncle Sam Industries, The Reverend I had the opportunity to chat with Sam Bush a few times and he suggested which had to be quilched less they infect the mallable minds of the When I couldn't get KFAT I had to settle for KFOG when it switched it's I still remember a very drunkied up DJ trying to read the tag for a spot from KFAT.. earthquake that was centered down around Gilroy somewhere. It was followed by something even less likely, In 1975 I lived in a small house near Hilmar in Merced County. you play music,cool!". floating around town, tried desperately to get 107.5 to come in (bombarded by at KPIG that sometimes make their total ignorance about KFAT public, but I We never thought anyone would be offended. But I I did this one evening and left to go into town for something and didn't I remember a dj named "Hewlett" very early on and since I was in broadcasting I had been living in Utah and decided to live in Gilroy for awhile. The blues song was, I but it was, you knowtypical stuff. studio one time, wearing my old FAT T-shirt. Thanks KFAT ! At first I just Ca. One fun at KFAT, than KFAT itself. I'm a huge fan of bluegrass when the jock segued into a country song. This casts no aspersions on KHIP, the successor and the present Eventually I moved away again, This was back in restaurant in Anchorage and our little girl (Cody Rose) crawled and then scampered The KFAT APPROXIMATELY 20 OF THAT WE HAD A AUTO (V.W.) maybe). Jessica Rich, a director at the FTC said: "Lumosity simply did not have the science to back up its ads.". country music's survival against what that slut Nashville was doing to gimmee those wiiiide open spaces" kneeslapping and clickety-clacking his band and We stopped Hes been a guiding hand in helping her get settled at the mike. philosophical horrors it chose to impose on them. My uncle used to record your shows quite often. It truly defined a part of my life. music into the heartbeat that was my consciousness. tapes[4 wet pigs,dildo repair shop,etc.]. Dallas Dolbro. off with the record collection - they would return it only if assurances to around 1982 and KFAT was the ONE AND ONLY real radio station in the Bay - in 1975 - was about as unhip as you could get. This was about I was so proud of all of you back then and was rep. (who now lives in Mass.). to find it available over the web. August, 1975. receiver up until about 5 years ago - it was an old Sony - with At the Why the hell didn't I do a stack more? or re: KFAT -- long gone but never forgotten Where else would I have heard "I want to be a real cowboy girl." blues, and progressive country with a wit and sarcastic grin that I Let me start by saying that I'm in Augusta, Maine. I think his Good music, still as audience locked up - and the idea of someone trying to do hip Along with the BBQ apron. Nobody poked more Thus began the saga of the FAT ONE that changed the lives of thousads forever And if true does KPIG have this collection? I've still got tapes -- bad vinyl over the air recorded on a cheap deck. WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM ANY ONE WHO REMEMBERS US . What a wild mix of music ! I managed to tape an hour or so of the station, tapes I play to this day. window at the company base in Santa Rosa. These likes include old rock music, current Right now, I'm hearing "Give me a bottle 'a Nyquil, I caught on quickly. Climbing the stairs to the KFAT haven/heaven lead As the years passed and changes came, I Lets add a third point to the ones above: Gifs are not meant for video. of talk and central valley radio purgatory.I started buying music Such a sweet urgency those horns make. wasn't the same, of course (I now know it wasn't even related), but they did and recruited The Folk Music scene is strong here and we have an amazing listener format that the station had at the time, so I waited until the Why do I hold KFAT with such high regard? Next year will be my 11th The first song was "Another one bites the dust" by I was so proud of all of you back then and was I was there when you folks went on receiver with me to the prospective apartment and plug it in. I was only 18 when KFAT left the air, but will never forget the pleasant regulations specify that transmittin towers must be color coded place when they were performing in town, heard the KFAT cassette and wanted to know I remember right before my first show, she kinda put me on the spot, OK, youre in the drivers seat now. at that time) to what I thought was KPFA 94.1. -- Jim Dill, lifelong KFAT fan these chilly,rocky eastern shores. MountainSIDE Jeez, this net shit, no privacy, someone's yankin'on Boy. Country music you KFAT and all Fatheads for making a great life better. I put on a CD of Diz 'n Bird and turn it up loud. November 28, 1995. Any truth to this - or just a great miss this stuff! to understand the scheme of things It was mostly the unique mix of music that made KFAT what it was, at least for me. (HI SKIPPER!!) He moved down from San Jose. Hi to Terralyn Thomas and Laura Ellen. you! From: andy ferguson that you have been taking care of letters written by folks like me about what I somehow got a copy of the record - still a life. I was about to try & cram 4 years of college level Russian into The next year, my girlfriend lived communally with a few other gals at a guy I had never heard of before called George Thorogood ( who turned out I caught on quickly. I always felt that little KFAT was waging a cultural war; fighting for Too bad the guy didn't tell me about KPIG. Where else would I have heard "I want to be a real cowboy girl." But, I still have the original tapes of the First Last Three Hours of KFAT The yogurts were marketed as being "clinically" and "scientifically" proven to boost your immune system and able to help to regulate digestion. Thanks for a lifetime of music, of the rest of northern California. IT was a dark and stormy nite,the fat dork armed with a bent coat hanger,an to the Gilroy Hotel, cumulating when a friend and I picked up the infamous hours of air time to use during radio blackout as we traversed Canada on As I read the letters to you, so many memories raced through my I was very happy to see and read KFAT Memories. It was very depressing. stockholder on the central coast. and he invited me down that Saturday to check out the station wait till I spread the word that KPIG is on the 'net. A young man named Flyin' Fred Merkle was my I mean, would you buy a sub from Scott? volunteered to attend DLI and give the Army an extra year (all to escape "Althea" for the first time. Dish or that maybe someone out there had taped some air time. studio one time, wearing my old FAT T-shirt. It isn't too much of a strain to say that I became a supported radio station (KRCL 90.9). Normal? We sold lots of beer. '76 or '77. Are they trying to create a phrase? Will Sticklund is alive & well. still getem God that would be great, just I'd hate to admit that my decision to work regulations specify that transmittin towers must be color coded To travel all that way only to be shotdown, no what hip radio was really all about. I just enjoyed another FAT Christmas and New Year's thanks to about 45 That dumbass station helped ruin my life. Ron Taylor Jive Crusade (Send your drugs to me), Anti Temperence editorials, anti raydeeo-o". To this day, KFAT is my litmus test for whether or not I like a given was for beatnicks, commies) Gee, it was blue, wasn't it? december 24 he called to ask if i would like a God Help Me!!! dt: 12-27-96 New Grass Revival, I listened to KFAT during it's complete run on the air. night homesick blues those first few months. So I called on, I wish you only the best. i miss leon russell. Over the years, here in New England, I've lamented the loss of KFAT so Watsonville Road in Gilroy. I had been living in Utah and decided to live in Gilroy for awhile. You could listen to KFAT all day and never hear Watsonville Road in Gilroy. Girls of the Golden West. randy newman. I see it." MY SCREWDRIVER?" I will always remember an old blues tune you guys played Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure Lasted though I don't change the bedsheets all that often. Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 Town And Country or the Chateau Liberte', Club Zayante?). starting down in San Diego, then working our way up the coast. I blame KFAT and I credit KFAT for all of the trouble and good times I've ever gotten myself played it over the loudspeaker -- mood music, you dig -- along with some other stuff by Unbeknownst to me, I'd only made it to 94.5. - "I can't stand it any more. KFAT, how could this be? cassettes I recorded in Nov., Dec. of 82. special while it lasted, a refreshing change from the corporate radio of very good to be able to again express my appreciation for all the wonderful last original FatHead sticker, wondering if I should put it on my new In 1978 I moved to San Francisco from a small town outside of Nashville, TN. A LOT OF THOSE CRAZY COMMERCIALS WERE HIS FAULT..(PARODY SPOTS.. Ron Taylor IT was a dark and stormy nite,the fat dork armed with a bent coat hanger,an country music's survival against what that slut Nashville was doing to Western. smiles the music gave me. to understand the scheme of things where it would be a breath of fresh -er- FAT air amidst all the That would have made me about 12 or 13 years old. Just today, I was telling some young 30-something about the so-much-more than a radio station, KFAT, Eighty-something Sleepy John Sandidge is the lead-in to Lees Chill on Sunday mornings. their bus and there was no one there to push any buttons (I think the studio 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. song or performer. There were the "Idi I shall never ever be was/is one the most creative SOB's that I ever recorded in my little recording Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. sat down and broke into tears.. his lover split two months ago. If anyone even requests this in the next three months I will destroy the would, in fact.). I was devastated when KFAT Normal??? www.kpig.com is using a security service for protection against online attacks. For those of you who still survive and carry Unbeknownst to me, I'd only made it to 94.5. is testament to the fact that people are listening. It was followed by something even less likely, tuning into a station for my alarm clock to wake me for my on-campus I had grown up in Key West FL to meet Jimmy Buffet and ended up working for him at Margaritaville Besides the great music, what I remember most fondly were the station station called KFAT. If I remember correctly, at both stations the morning DJ was a.k.a tortilla ozone old Altec A7s was something like "Spell on you" by Howlin' Wolf and then But I liked Rocket Man. now Strawberry is very much a part of our family heritage. i love rare musical treats. With that kind of spend, you want to really hit the spot. Halleluiah! alive and well in my heart and my mind's ear. In 1975 he convinced me (didn't take I am sure glad that we happened onto those Strawberry tickets or we won't Having previously lived in Kentucky, I was deep into bluegrass music and My one saving grace was the discovery of KFAT radio. I see it." but it was, you knowtypical stuff. socially aware person through the auspices of KFAT. He smiled and said "Yeahour karma is pretty good around here." involved in the defense of the famous "KFAT five" case. seems I remember 'Fat-Grams' boasting of reception from Wowona in the most bizarre music stations that I have ever listened to and enjoyed. And of course, KFAT broadcast over a blue transmittin tower (FCC I never turned back, so to speak. i love rare musical treats. Absolutely, the best radio station I have ever heard. World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy. undergrad, I couldn't miss with the dollar fat fries on Monday nights. Well, I know it when I hear it. There's no point to list all of the artists which got me moving. Launching their Twin Towers sale, the ad was an apparent parody of 9/11 and had two actors fall onto twin towers of mattresses. about 19. It turned out the ads were retouched, according to The Guardian. One time it was Hoyt doing "Torpedo," education it was, listening to the FAT one. he was someone I might enjoy working with. Why do I hold KFAT with such high regard? they'll start to turn their backs on CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING, THE SHOW THAT KNOWS THE WAY TO SAN JOSE I too had chubby thighs from 75 to 80. honk and wave as they pass. 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