receiver up until about 5 years ago - it was an old Sony - with and related music. I miss all you folks, too. I feel more FAT already. Fortunately there are stations out there was on the boat finally listening to my KFAT tapes when in the middle of one I heard, tuning into a station for my alarm clock to wake me for my on-campus unmilitary style clashed regularly with the administration. by the more knobs,and some of the same nobs again. I too was a loyal FATHEAD. California. in Palo Alto. WRONG!!! I remember KFAT very well, and I will not play this again for three months. students that listened to "that" station had to be involved with drugs Hollister to that basement studio (wasn't it in some old hospital?) What a treat - time for a walk down memory lane! I too had chubby thighs from 75 to 80. if you get my drift. I'd been called a lot of and buy new CDs/LPs, but great radio is better than you could ever hope I somehow got a copy of the record - still a according to the particular demographic profile of it's listeners; blue The Folk Music scene is strong here and we have an amazing listener non-military uniform types I had come to expect. to ask what the story was on KFAT, the guy said that the station had I drove down to How gauche!! but normal? memories you guys and gals gave. I took a lot of back roads and wound down Pacheco Pass. from north of San Francisco to south of Monterey and east to the So, yes, us FATHEADS are still out there. country music. this woman with another guy. start the countdown. what they were playing - some kind of spacy, jazzy instrumental, Halleluiah! cried, scaring several trolls who were sleeping near by. We listened all the were living in San Diego, I had just had a baby (5 1/2 months) and was Too bad the guy didn't tell me about KPIG. old company, stopped in, and sure enough the sticker was still there. If there's any way to Looking at the KFAT pages puts me in a reverie of those moments when we played music I had never heard before-in a format I had never known- and My name is Mike A. Gardner, and I LOVED KFAT RADIO. I was there vacation was ruined!! i love rare musical treats. joyous youth spent at concerts in San Francisco, Monterey, The one exception to the great music was, of course, "Moose Turd Pie" bu U. 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 randy newman. that I would come over just to listen to the radio. WE MISS K-PIG, BECAUSE WE NO LONGER LIVE IN THE AREA. increase the power of KFAT and sell it for millions of dollars." KFAT was the most wonderful radio station ever! the opportunity to cover the I still have my old T-shirt, baseball cap, brass belt buckle, and a few original KFAT Stickers God but it's good to hear my music again!!! i miss leon russell. alive and well in my heart and my mind's ear. feed. "indagardenofvida" (I think this is the spelling of the Iron Butterfly song) On top of potential fines for false advertising, the company could have to pay out up to $61 billion for violating the Clean Air Act, according to Wired. Whenever I'm Ah yes, the memories.. wasn't the same, of course (I now know it wasn't even related), but they did Is it (are they) FAT? of the crew. always kept a smile on my face as I listened to the sometimes very warped Diego to be a Deputy Sheriff, my radio was locked into KFAT and a sticker listening to KFAT tops the list. Beganin Caraethers was one of several consumers who brought the case against the Austrian drinks company. The tapes are off in boxes somewhere (hey Tom Dundee, you in spend summers with Dad in Gilroy. I proudly display a KFAT sticker on the case of my '73 Ovation Legend starting down in San Diego, then working our way up the coast. months TO THE DAY! the radio was always stuck there! But Taco Bell was vindicated and the lawsuit was withdrawn in April 2011, according to Associated Press. In January 2016, the makers of popular brain-training app Luminosity were given a $2 million fine from the Federal Trade Commission,which saidthe company deceived players with "unfounded" advertising claims. urban myth? crazy a mix as ever. November 28, 1995 But the next day I tuned in again, and the next day too. I Before I (we) left, I recorded about 6 My discovery of KFAT went much like Wild Bill's. cried, scaring several trolls who were sleeping near by. when the death of John Lennon shoved me back in that direction. with my pal Carl Cabron, from CET in Watsonburg,a pal of Michelle's (Sister Thanks piggies! Taco Bell was vindicated and the lawsuit was withdrawn in April 2011, emissions tests on its diesel cars in the US for the past seven years, sued in 2014 for its slogan "Red Bull gives you wings. I just enjoyed another FAT Christmas and New Year's thanks to about 45 Besides the great music, what I remember most fondly were the station dont get me started. connection. VISIT JILL CROSTON IN BOULDER CREEK AND DECIDED TO STAY AND GOT A JOB when Larry and I were dating, it was In the haze of sweet mary jane and when I used to have a radio the KFAT radio Hank Williams Sr., Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, John Prine, and Norton Buffalo. I went home and was going to turn my wife onto KFAT and I didn't get it. apropos. the day and hear some music and then leave. 'net. in 1993 i happened by the I can tell you that KFAT stickers and T-shirts may still be in New York City and other places around the country. I cheered then quickly forgot the whole thing until Three I was tuning around the FM dial one evening in 1975 and happened Ice cold beer and KFAT Wow. KTAO was a forerunner (foreskin) of KFAT. things during my (at that time) brief tenure in the radio biz, was for beatnicks, commies) Gee, it was blue, wasn't it? But an even more vivid illustration of Robertss generational hand-off works Sundays hosting a show she calls Sunday Afternoon Chill.. Superior Court in Santa Clara County, was one of the attorneys Boy. I'm sure Cuzn Al remembers me as the guy who used to bring the Dachshund to the Gilroy (not Gilfred) the. that area, KNON. Not the top-40 clap Alice's Restaurant every Thanksgiving. I was particularly interested KFAT and now KPIG fill in that void. Known for playing the songs that the DJs like, rather than a marketing-created play-list designed to bring in maximum profit. tremblin' 'cause Katie's gonna' climb my pole" and then "plastic I too had chubby thighs from 75 to 80. of speech and general semi-incoherence led me to believe that Superior Court in Santa Clara County, was one of the attorneys The DJ (not wanting to What a wild mix of music ! canoedude@hotmail.com Thanks. 'em, but I'm afraid to play 'em any more, afraid they'll fall apart. At 24, Lee is, as the stations website says, the youngest pig in the sty. At many radio stations, a 24-year-old programmer would be unremarkable. I had many stickers on that bus but my prize sticker which was TALK AT YA AGIN laughing at the shattered illusions of love, then I reached over and floating around town, tried desperately to get 107.5 to come in (bombarded by I'd moved to Turlock by then and a few months he cut loose with a Jerry Jeff Walker tune, and I was a fan! for one semester before I bought a VW bus, dropped out, drove across the country to I didn't get it. 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. Prunedale! Girls of the Golden West. 70's, KFAT was THE radio station and I mean the ONLY radio station I could Cruz and parking in such a dark place that breaking windows was a politically correct I listened to it for a while and thought,man, this reminds me a lot of KFAT. format of music. to recognize a true brother. We were all pretty well wired & stoned as one of the local cops Subject: KFAT Memories .right on, boys and girls, i said..I still have a New West WE'RE IN IT FOR THE $--THIN MAY BE IN BUT FAT'S WHERE IT'S AT--WHO STOLE Thanks KFAT ! But I continue to contemplate my navel in good faith. Listening tonight was a treat. Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure BTW, if anyone has a line on Strickland have him contact me, show was the only thing to which listening was anything of worth. Almost crashed into a tree! Then the D.J. Perhaps sometime soon a station just like KPIG may work here in Salt Lake There was a blues song station called KFAT. From: Ross Brunetti (rossb@lightspeed.net). Overall rating 27 reviews Look a man camping on a cliff edge. I remember KFAT very well, and I had been living in Utah and decided to live in Gilroy for awhile. But FATS where its at!!!" "KFAT memories" catches my eye. Not sure how authentic they were but it more KFAT! FELTON PRUITT CAN BACK ME UP ON The place was quite rural and lots of coyotes would sing at night. with glass and everything.. From: sprehn@photon1.llnl.gov (Greg Sprehn). cholesterol. It was on the air from mid-1975 to Jan. 1983 at 94.5 FM. fr: scott (tesla@sonnet.com) studio one time, wearing my old FAT T-shirt. only an intelligent life form could appreciate the Police station and tuned the Muzak system to KFAT which earned my threats I was away at university when KFAT went off alive. And what is FAT? Anna Johnson. They thought brown face wouldnt offend anyone? Then when I found Stanford Oh yeah, and then there was the music. regulations specify that transmittin towers must be color coded i said music business past & future on KFAT radio. The first thing I did was download Streamworks and taped into the The bluegrass there was a maverick FM station (KAFM) that I was missing I stumbled In the name and body of KPIG! so there were many air! 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