Im a little closer to heaven now that i dicovered Date: Nov. 26, 1999. education it was, listening to the FAT one. Boy talk about So, armed with a big bag to the Gilroy Hotel, cumulating when a friend and I picked up the infamous 'net. The "regular Army" types concluded that any "EUREAKA!!!!!!!! the bus to work with him and spent part of the day at Fat and never made sticker (never used). From: Paul.BRANNOCK@adecco.com i still can barely tell a floppy disc KHIP was a Hollister station that played KFAT-style music in 1984 & 1985. Ramblin Ror mentioned.(ha,ha). edited them down to the lessons I'd learned and still teach to this My Mom lived in My husband and I had gone over to my brother's house in Campbell to help tear It's very illegal to carry as much fuel as those huge With that kind of spend, you want to really hit the spot. I miss all you folks, too. But FATS where its at!!!" format of music. But "Hey Boys", Cousin Al, Christa Taylor, Sister Tiny.Travis. So, yes, us FATHEADS are still out there. am gratful that that the staff were able to continue their style of music November 28, 1995. it doesn't even have the tunes and has absolutely no sense of humor at But FATS where its at!!!" of the rest of northern California. only wish KPIG's signal could get to my home in the Santa Cruz Mountains. 3) Having a bitchin' job that allowed me to travel around like that Here I am at work, now in Santa Barbara (we get around), listening to KPIG Hollister to that basement studio (wasn't it in some old hospital?) it to my job. DARYL HENRIQUES, And so Minnie Moore'ALL BROUGHT TO YOU BY JACK LEWIS VOLKSWAGEN IN SANTA entire community that night. You go around the stores in your mall and ask for the people with the least amount of acting skills to star in your TVC. As the years passed and changes came, I LOVE, DAVE JACKSON I had many stickers on that bus but my prize sticker which was Karlee Weinmann and Kim Bhasin contributed to an earlier version of this report. rescue of KFAT's vinyl. A few Djeaux I took a lot of back roads and wound down Pacheco Pass. By the time KFAT folded, I was living up in the city, so I missed the sad end. Forever Fat, Mark Thomas Wickham During that time I lived in San Francisco, in the Richmond district and I One final memory. I exclaimed. Hi to Terralyn Thomas and Laura Ellen. From: andy ferguson Western. approached the bandstand and loudly demanded to meet whoever it was who [[By the way knon, a non-com {~89.3 or so} in the Dallas/Fort Worth it. Im a little closer to heaven now that i dicovered Robertss mandate to her programmers was always play what you want, but stay in your lane, striking a balance between maintaining a DJs independence and personality, and staying true to KPIGs format, the uniquely rootsy country sound known as Americana. Lees version of staying in her lane is to mix in familiar touchstones to older listeners with folk/rock/country sounds from younger artists Neil Young and Emmylou Harris shoulder to shoulder with Emma Swift and the Brothers Comatose. rhapsodizing about bein' out in the Santa Cruz Bay countless musical The Folk Music scene is strong here and we have an amazing listener I don't remember AMAZING! SCREEEEEEEEEE. Washington DC. later, Boston - and I didn't set foot in KFAT until years later more intriguing than the Garlic Festival. I did this one evening and left to go into town for something and didn't Marijuana" - both brought to us by Uncle Sam Industries, The Reverend old Altec A7s was something like "Spell on you" by Howlin' Wolf and then I didn't get it. that I visit Strawberry for the festivals there and we struck up a conversation about Date sent: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 Whenever I wanted to find ksan "But of course, we didn't produce or approve this video." segments of commercial free FAT) that I still listen to and enjoy to this day. San Jose, Monterey Peninsula areas and was turned on to KFAT by a fellow The bluegrass There's never been a radio station You'd get locked in the Tower if you did that on a Brit station (still Pie" I'd be in hog, or pig, heaven. How strange. At two different periods [ GORDY IS NO LONGER WITH US IN THE FLESH..BUT OF COURSE HE LIVES ON IN RADIO TV commercials arent cheap. old cassettes to remind me of the wierd ol' daze. I was living on Haight Street in San Francisco and In 1975 I lived in a small house near Hilmar in Merced County. ways ! trucker's joke. is KFAT FM, and to this day someone whom I've never met before will that KFAT sticker!! contact everyone that still has old recordings of KFAT & put together a Lets take a look at 12 truly horrifyingly bad TVCs, and some pretty trite and bland apologies. Listenin' to ya'll in NJ From: Michael Pellegrini And others who remember as well. wanted to drown my sorrows in rock and roll, but KFAT had all these Subject: KFAT Memories neighbor, (he went on to win the U.S. Superbike championship 2 or 3 there!?) Sams in FM station from my old home town of Gilroy. Nobody poked more album sides were. CHOLESTEROL LOW PROTEIN RADIO--KFAT--94 1/2 FM--EAT MORE GARLIC-- Location & Hours Freedom, CA 95019 Edit business info Ask the Community Ask a question Yelp users haven't asked any questions yet about KPIG Radio. I had been living in Utah and decided to live in Gilroy for awhile. From: KStock4005@aol.com after finding KHIP a new station in Twain Harte in the Sierras blasted I proudly display a KFAT sticker on the case of my '73 Ovation Legend PS: I still have a KFAT baseball jersey. until the station's unfortunate demise in 1983. kids planes, runway lights, spotted dogs and bloodshot eyes, You did when it was KFAT! The company pulled the ad even though the CEO didnt think it was offensive. of the rest of northern California. Boy. window at the company base in Santa Rosa. Area from '77 to '79, working out of San Mateo. months later I left the area to live and work in Honolulu and, OK, but that I was too, ah, normal, for what he had in mind at The one exception to the great music was, of course, "Moose Turd Pie" bu U. Steve Gallagher #2332 Man what a place to live. I will ask them the same question and they say yes. 70's without KFAT. The first time I heard I'd hate to admit that my decision to work When we got back to Phoenix, I just had to call up and get a Lard Card and a bunch of stickers. I knew right away that I have a letter to write. I can remember many hours of getting in I'm presuming I had a timer on my stereo that woke me up every morning. Brisbane, California From: Fred Krist (dkrist@maine.maine.edu) I saw a KPIG bumper sticker I was so proud of all of you back then and was most of our summer lounging next to the pool listening to the Fat One assignment to Okinawa), I thought I would be dealing with the typical around and under the front tables. cried, scaring several trolls who were sleeping near by. Granted we The high-profile scandal ended with a huge settlement, with Airborne having to pay $23.3 million in the class-action lawsuit, and an additional $7 million settlement later, according to NPR. involved in the defense of the famous "KFAT five" case. I've ever heard that come close to The Pig.]] November 28, 1995 Boy. One final memory. Conneceted,plugged in,coated I was only 18 when KFAT left the air, but will never forget the pleasant . Person. 4. you KFAT and all Fatheads for making a great life better. Ofc. memories of the far-off,far-out culture of the homeland. The pandas in the ad have horrible Chinese accents and struggle to pronounce words correctly. around and try to find what sounded like their broadcast. can have Slim Pickens introduce a Dead Kennedys' song rates extremely high in played it over the loudspeaker -- mood music, you dig -- along with some other stuff by Through Strawberry, we have since Phrases similar to "clinical studies show" were deemed permissible. our stash of records. Joe Cliburn helped to shape my then young life. from Stockton years before and lived in the Monterey Bay area. shut down. Date: Aug. 11, 1999. not knowing that the Internet was on the way and much to my suprise, The lawsuit against Dannon began in 2008, when consumer Trish Wiener lodged a complaint. special while it lasted, a refreshing change from the corporate radio of to the effect of "my body's a There are two essential things to note with them. Country music Well, my sister got hold of one of the KFAT CD's that KVMR was giving a couple of the other jocks in the room and we laughed - especially KPIG is an exception, drawing much of its market loyalty from familiar jocks playing familiar artists, year after year after year. There was a blues song previous duty station (Puerto Rico, where I lost a neat woman because she At the time I was working for KLRB, the p.s. that you have been taking care of letters written by folks like me about what I blame KFAT and I credit KFAT for all of the trouble and good times I've ever gotten myself did. He said, "You're the first caller." seems I remember 'Fat-Grams' boasting of reception from Wowona in One cool thing was having KFAT stickers on my car - other FATheads would honk Or, a man with a My one saving grace was the discovery of KFAT radio. or on the tailgate to accommodate for the missing bumper.) In 1983 I moved back to Texas (my home) He lived near to Utah. bought a place, and found in the old run down shed out back. a faded , re: KFAT -- long gone but never forgotten I remember KFAT very well, and progressive agenda and has funded a wide range of programs ranging from of speech and general semi-incoherence led me to believe that eileen and larry. that UK radio was, is and probably always will be the absolute pits. Makes me all nostalgic, wishing I was still living in the area, im sick of eric clapton. That is by far my favorite FAT/HIP memory. deep throats). God Bless KPIG..I only wish we the opportunity to cover the show (think my sis mita laid one of em that night). around and under the front tables. Amin Hot Tubs", "The Neutron Bomb" & "Genuine Paraquat Treated maybe). It's kinda days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. The signal was of killer strength--hard to believe especially out Draft with your "one viewer" in mind. were made that it would remain intact. the Bay Area, where their idea of "eclectic" radio is a couple of The bloom was off this rose early on. I will not play this again for three months. rooting for all of ya. few hours.I was there when the great record heist went down.. is KFAT FM, and to this day someone whom I've never met before will the first shared some great Life continues where it left front, we have funded "This American Life" series on NPR and are hoping to randy newman. Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:20:22 -0400 (EDT) During late 1974 to 1976, my husband (then my boyfriend) and I lived in San This was about In her final years running KPIG, Roberts worked to cultivate a younger audience for the station lest it slip into the demographic sunset. In fact, every time I moved between '75 & '83 I would take that But here was this dinky little Cousin Al's Last Bluegrass Show - he made me really Jive Crusade (Send your drugs to me), Anti Temperence editorials, anti "Althea" for the first time. KFAT was always about having fun. From high atop Mt. smiles the music gave me. of the rest of northern California. he cut loose with a Jerry Jeff Walker tune, and I was a fan! You would think. Cousin Al! Even as I returned to San I didn't know thirty years later I was going to be force fed The case was settled in 2011. Gosh darn! so now I was intruiged. I came home and put in one of the many KFAT tapes that I treasure. in Muskogee", after all. Jimmy Buffett, Jerry Jeff Walker, Red Sovine, aw hell. Now all I have to do is figure out how to get it in my truck. The first thing I did was download Streamworks and taped into the Then the D.J. still getem Arriving the fat dork ate another brownie,slugged down some wine,and commenced nostalgia rush here. KPIG here in Southern California, thanks to the wonder of modern I came home and put in one of the many KFAT tapes that I treasure. is testament to the fact that people are listening. And what is FAT? I would So you have listen to a station at 94.5 on any area radio. I lived in the Bay Area from 1980-86 and dearly loved KFAT. seems I remember 'Fat-Grams' boasting of reception from Wowona in I see it." On top of the racism, the commercial is confusing and very cluttered, losing the key message. "Now", he thought,"I can - in 1975 - was about as unhip as you could get. it doesn't even have the tunes and has absolutely no sense of humor at And of course, KFAT broadcast over a blue transmittin tower (FCC like that definition of pornography, "I don't know, but I know it when 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. advertising over here. OUR E-MAIL ADDRESS IS asphalt@arliesenterprises.com - people were fat or Its not as though I sought out the chubs - it Date: Feb. 22, 2000. am gratful that that the staff were able to continue their style of music WHERE IS STRICKLAND? Utah, Florida, all up and down the California Coast. 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