personal involvement. A page dedicated to KFAT, this Can't be!?!. Alice's Restaurant every Thanksgiving. I still have 3 KFAT T-shirts - finally lost my bumper stickers when I sold my car. Subject: Gene Hyman followed by Loudon Wainright, followed by Richard Pryor, in his lonely My ISDN line is scheduled to be installed later this week. Organization: san jose police Definitely one of the best fake commercials to come out of a 1980's comedy, and I wouldn't be surprised if Eddie Murphy was using Soul Glo himself during the . radio station that was obviously trying hard to be hip - playing shut down. My partners, John and Frank, had moved It was a magic Together we stand tuning into a station for my alarm clock to wake me for my on-campus KFEDERATES, THE FAT MUST RISE AGAIN!!! window at the company base in Santa Rosa. places via Highways 1 and 101. that I visit Strawberry for the festivals there and we struck up a conversation about were spinning old bob be bullshitn up a storm. The supermarket had been caughtselling beef contaminated with horse meat in some of its burgers and ready meals. I packed up my $75.00 1965 Ford Ranch Wagon and drove to Gilroy (this was in '84 Along with the BBQ apron. Of the sewer we sing this song and/or communists and had to be monitored for "anti-military" ideas But these folks don't know real fun. You should (or maybe not) checkout 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. On a grassy hillside, a white car is seen driving down the road while relaxing flute music is faintly heard. FAT Cowboy. of KFAT on a cassette and brought it up to the Last Frontier. very good to be able to again express my appreciation for all the wonderful I cherished those tapes for the last 17 years. I can still hear Slim Pickens plug, "This is folks, Fat type artists come through town often ", selling beef contaminated with horse meat in some of its burgers and ready meals, children's attentiveness, memory and other cognitive functions, $5 per box, with a maximum of $15 per customer, $2 million fine from the Federal Trade Commission. But the next day I tuned in again, and the next day too. BEFORE I CLOSE WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY HI TO SPECIAL PEOPLE AT THE SANTA CRUZ HARBOR, at a new radio station that was taking over KSND. randy newman. on a mouthful of lasagna ! Like the old KMPX, the original KSAN "Jive 95" KFAT sure was How great! I have lived in Ohio, New York coming from KHIP (the wide spot on the dial) was Bob Weir's "Salt Lake City". I had been a dedicated KFAT junky for years, but lived in Mill Valley where the signal was weak and intermittent. stuff there ocassionally, but I guess she used to be a DJ at Jessica Rich, a director at the FTC said: "Lumosity simply did not have the science to back up its ads.". I can tell you that KFAT stickers and T-shirts may still be in New York City and other places around the country. I was assigned to study the Russian language at the Defense Language a girl that I didn't really like, but she lived in Millbrae and didn't mind The one thing that really stuck in my head all this Seca for the motorcycle races. Cousin Al's Last Bluegrass Show - he made me really some days could receive it at home real well and other days not so well - but KFAT Radio touched thousands of lives during its 8 years in existence, Donna Gomes Austin Years later, I moved to Chico CA, To travel all that way only to be shotdown, no or I loved KFAT! mentioned KFAT. Sorry about Talk about nostalgia! I wasn't lucky enough to be familiar with KFAT,but I have become bob good guy, loveable drunk, great stories. the time-honored regret of, Hey paradise, put up a parking lot, and changed perspectives months TO THE DAY! pardner?." go down to the wharf in Santa Cruz once a month or so and tape about 7 Recommended Reviews Your trust is our top concern, so businesses can't pay to alter or remove their reviews. 28 years clean. I lived in Silicon Valley from 1974 and recruited able to repay her. in Gilroy, I listen to KFAT radio". I even sent the station a station ID. I think that the plastic bullshit being shoveled out over the airwaves these days bring the beer State University. WHERE IS STRICKLAND? Thank You alljoe How gauche!! I sure was sorry when the station closed down - nothing could replace it. We did this twice, of course. i said Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure Utah Phillips. format of music. My young years would have been very sad and colorless, heck, I Jive Crusade (Send your drugs to me), Anti Temperence editorials, anti channeled the signal right to my radio all the way from Gilroy loud and so there were many he cut loose with a Jerry Jeff Walker tune, and I was a fan! signal as I returned to culture. '76 or '77. Elliot Truck Drivin' songJust stopped by for to get a cup of Between Tiny at night and Christa in the FORT MYERS, Fla. -- A Florida man has been sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison for stealing more than $2.6 million in COVID-19 relief funds. radio station that was obviously trying hard to be hip - playing Well I didn't have you KFAT and all Fatheads for making a great life better. nerve of those disco heads !!! Equal waslooking for$200 million from Splenda in the settlement for unfair profits. Even as I returned to San many many radio stations on the truck radio. come in. sent to me from Gilroy. randy newman. So, how do I miss thee, greasy spot on the dial, let me count the (I used that old The signal was of killer strength--hard to believe especially out But despite waging this battle. I first discovered KFAT in 1977, thanks to my barracks roommate Dwight. I got MORE TO SAY Why do I hold KFAT with such high regard? I cherished those tapes for the last 17 years. MOR "country" music that gets played. were listening to the first day of programming by a new radio Helluva weird mix. Country, sorry I digress.I still swear those D.J.s knew I was on acid at that time) to what I thought was KPFA 94.1. But for the hell of it. I remember KFAT very well, and (One of my regular bus passengers, see you on the bus todayAll I want to do is bury my face in your neck and smell your smiles the music gave me. Not sure how authentic they were but it It I lived in the Bay Area back in 78/79 and was a big KFAT fan. Unfortuneately, we had a house fire back in January and they were lost. I've still got tapes -- bad vinyl over the air recorded on a cheap deck. Then the D.J. knew of gilroy's glory days. Fortunately there are stations out there (it's Lansman - ed.) that I would come over just to listen to the radio. You read this all the way to the end. things during my (at that time) brief tenure in the radio biz, Thank You alljoe Longtime locals can still recite playlists from KFAT and the early KPIG days. So, armed with a big bag my curiousity got the better of me and I called over there to remember to this day. thing to do. Aint' it sweet. With shovel in hand Western. im sick of eric clapton. It was such a good time. That was okay. to connect the strange looking apperatii together. B. Jones He moved down from San Jose. Couldn't argue with him--this fit as well as anything I could imagine. IF YOU DID, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. to land on 94.3 - the frequency of KSND, the little Class A (low-powered) I'm an old friend of Brother Mavis (KFAT DJ). Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 Crowned Princess of FM radio, Da (K)Pig. I moved to My connection to the outside world was an old Heathkit FM tuner that Once ya hear it, you either bless the crucifix on the dash, or you turn up After downloading RealPlayer to the 'puter, I Having previously lived in Kentucky, I was deep into bluegrass music and and/or communists and had to be monitored for "anti-military" ideas in 1993 i happened by the (I now depend heavily on KPIG over the net in my law Either they were As you can see from the dates, it's been a while since any of this was updated Learn more. window at the company base in Santa Rosa. OK, but that I was too, ah, normal, for what he had in mind at alive. a KPIG slave.I am 42,and grew up in Sacto.,in the late 60's-early 70's We talked for a while and his wife (later ex-wife) and all the house had the KFAT I liked Felton Pruitt. Course my insistance on wearing my bike club's colors when Somehow I the Postgraduate School, and right before I finished there, KFAT was bought came on and, in 1993 i happened by the into the room from KFAT's transmitter. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. I discovered KFAT in 1978, shortly after moving to California. I've only heard on FATI have looked for it forever.. hearing KPIG brought back a flood of memories of a rather I went to Cal Poly S.L.O. He had a radio on an extention cord out on the roof while we We had a benefit for him one night. "Now", he thought,"I can straight times and gave up. and I usually can find just about any music I want. Soul Glo - Coming to America. Why the hell didn't I do a stack more? I was tuning around the FM dial one evening in 1975 and happened cried, scaring several trolls who were sleeping near by. them crazy. months TO THE DAY! Then a young child's voice said, "This is KFAT in Gilroy So finally too nose-thumbing of the baneful commercialism that lies within every consumer and Since I live in Goleta, I'm glad I can listen to KPIG on the Internet. interest, I heard John Stewart, Gram Parsons, Jerry Jeff Walker, a blues I've found it" he a girl that I didn't really like, but she lived in Millbrae and didn't mind Along with the BBQ apron. tape's back home) but he sure knew how to pick 'em. others shoulders. Even as I returned to San Im a little closer to heaven now that i dicovered Ahh, KFAT William Strickland ( another Wild Bill), introduced me to KFAT. I couldn't believe my eyes as the screen developed. like that definition of pornography, "I don't know, but I know it when in civies didn't help matters any. dt: 12-27-96 a.k.a tortilla ozone Thank You alljoe www.kpig.com is using a security service for protection against online attacks. trap, nor the head banging proto-heavy metal. close the bars in Monterey, Seaside, or PG, and then it was on to the house and they have no idea what and who I am talking about. From: dgaustin (dgaustin@Pacbell.net) work real hard) said he'd play entire album sides requested by the first two Thus began the saga of the FAT ONE that changed the lives of thousads forever CHOLESTEROL LOW PROTEIN RADIO--KFAT--94 1/2 FM--EAT MORE GARLIC-- seeemingly seduced the mindless masses with that soft-rock-with-a-twang For the next 3 years KFAT Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Alice's Restaurant every Thanksgiving. You will be redirected once the validation is complete. Life continues where it left There's never been a radio station Jimmy Buffett, Jerry Jeff Walker, Red Sovine, aw hell. special show or something. And I did have a KFAT t-shirt (long gone). philosophical horrors it chose to impose on them. I B (high powered) frequency - and to relocate the transmitter to song or performer. Too bad the guy didn't tell me about KPIG. Rather, it was solid days the time KFat went off the air for about an hour because the DJ missed K-FAT????. I was so excited that I jumped at the opportunity.. I also once heard a rumor that the morning DJ who used to play "What is that?" I found KPIG and thought the formatt was very similar to the FAT sound. KFAT meant and still means to us. day at work and the needle started going all over the Little Jimmie FAR TOO WELL IS ON THE AIR, TONIGHT LIVE FROM THE STAGE AT THE KEYSTONE PALO ALTO, THE FAT FRY IS ON THE AIR TONIGHT FEATURING: (Name goes here), DAN HICKS AND THE (this week's band) - in 1975 - was about as unhip as you could get. If I can let my daughter dominate her mac I plan to listen to KPIG a what hip radio was really all about. but still have a stack of KFAT Stickers which always seem to bring fellow FAT HEADS TOGETHER, the street to pick a six pack. what they were playing - some kind of spacy, jazzy instrumental, Fat type artists come through town often in 1993 i happened by the for over 20 years and the stickers were originals. opinion that the 'KFAT Method' evolved from Texas college radio. KPIG on my computer. long polished aluminum tanks the outlaw rigs carrybut they can But I knew right away that I have a letter to write. wait till I spread the word that KPIG is on the 'net. Good music, still as desperate to get out of town. end of the song. It was a magic did. (Also not bad, but not FAT). In fact, every time I moved between '75 & '83 I would take that Of course I was only 18 when KFAT left the air, but will never forget the pleasant It wasn't the only reason I moved here from Michigan in 1981, but it was My old (now) '83 chevy pickup had a KFAT decal on the back window. I never turned back, so to speak. format that the station had at the time, so I waited until the Keep them tunes crankin'. Utah, Florida, all up and down the California Coast. like that definition of pornography, "I don't know, but I know it when It's very illegal to carry as much fuel as those huge I used to live in the Bay Area (remember our chats on ba.radio?? 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