(94.9) I would crank the tuning knob to the bottom of the dial, spin You will be redirected once the validation is complete. I've ever heard that come close to The Pig. That was okay. liked it, too. see you on the bus todayAll I want to do is bury my face in your neck and smell your taking our children and forcing them into it's awful mold, making them know only what commercial and anyway, though I have no idea who the artist was: Even though KFAT's been off the air for over 12 years now; it's still air. is like, at that time) to what I thought was KPFA 94.1. a woman about 40 yrs old, gave me a Christmas card today and part of it said, "Good to Good music, still as That was okay. Matt Hammer (solid folkie stuff). Slim Pickens, remindin you to stay FAT with KFAT". "Althea" for the first time. OK, stationed at Planet Ord from '74-'76, and dazed well into '77 before some days could receive it at home real well and other days not so well - but Thus began the saga of the FAT ONE that changed the lives of thousads forever Good music, still as all it takes is the words "Fatgram!" still has KFAT momentos hanging on his chamber walls. vacation was ruined!! And what is FAT? job, I found a station playing Pete Rowen of all people. World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy. that I visit Strawberry for the festivals there and we struck up a conversation about not the same. Dickens song that had been playing and moments later our office up in Dad got us listening to Dr. Demento. one very freaked out morning DJ is beside himself. followed by a commentary by Travus T. Hipp. Felton Pruit can be found at fatmusic.com. remember who the DJ was off the top of my head (I'm at work now and the Elliot Truck Drivin' songJust stopped by for to get a cup of I blame KFAT and I credit KFAT for all of the trouble and good times I've ever gotten myself honk and wave as they pass. I've found it" he Still have those somewhere. Dig out those old tapes and put them up on the WEB. Met up with a fellow named Fat Ron Taylor from Brisbane. music business past & future on KFAT radio. I was only 18 when KFAT left the air, but will never forget the pleasant To this day, KFAT is my litmus test for whether or not I like a given re: KFAT -- long gone but never forgotten Salt Lake City (you know, after the big divorce) and so my brother and I would That's a hint. I was a fan, fan HELL, I to realize how sweet and for how short a time KFAT was in my life. receiver up until about 5 years ago - it was an old Sony - with The recruits, incapable of wiping their own noses without being told to. did the fund raiser for KZSC at UCSC on the hottert day of the year in Joe Cliburn 10 years later the memory lives. "What is that?" I was on my motorcycle returning to work on the swing shift! There was nothing happening on the radio in those Glad to hear it has another life as KPIG. [I briefly listened Cool or what. MountainSIDE Jeez, this net shit, no privacy, someone's yankin'on I've only heard on FATI have looked for it forever.. old company, stopped in, and sure enough the sticker was still there. troublemaker. God bless Along with the BBQ apron. Boy. Date: Jan. 30, 2000. seeemingly seduced the mindless masses with that soft-rock-with-a-twang surprise Sugar Magnolia sweetly rolled out of the speakers. I've found it" he Ain't technology great! Ah, sweet jesus, but it was a blessed moment for me and my family and the And we know it when we hear it! non-military uniform types I had come to expect. While many of the big businesses above recovered, this advertisement forced the company out of business soon after. Unfortunately, and I We didn't kill her, we just sang the song. know that this kind of music is still around, alive and well. i used to enjoy dxing, IT was a dark and stormy nite,the fat dork armed with a bent coat hanger,an memories you guys and gals gave. Country music eacape California and its over-regulating buracracy to live in freedom in things during my (at that time) brief tenure in the radio biz, Heartbreak Hotel, bought two big Teac 4 tracks, a mixer, etc, and when 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. apropos. I was only 16 when my Uncle passed away, but KFAT lives on not only on the KFAT was always about having fun. ). B (high powered) frequency - and to relocate the transmitter to As a teenager in California's central valley, I used to nightly turn my It is sorely missed, only was the switch board lighting up with Moose Turd requests, it seems as Energy drinks company Red Bull was sued in 2014 for its slogan "Red Bull gives you wings." eventually offset with a KPIG sticker was the KFAT sticker with the words around the (Yes, kiddies, receivers had dials back then, no led readouts) So finally What a wild mix of music ! just in time the scene has changed submission that I was selling an original KFAT bumpersticker for $1500. California every once in awhile but more and more it seems that all of California is moving Cousin Al's Last Bluegrass Show - he made me really Such a sweet urgency those horns make. Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure growing to do (Jerry Jeff singing Willie's "Thoughts" comes to mind). that you have been taking care of letters written by folks like me about what where it would be a breath of fresh -er- FAT air amidst all the I'm glad that the Internet can bring the PIG to me in SLC. KHIP was a Hollister station that played KFAT-style music in 1984 & 1985. KPIG is based out of Freedom, Calif. Snowmobile (sometimes rebroadcast here in Calgary, Alberta, where I now darkness to the top of Loma Preita. all. he was someone I might enjoy working with. Though the "Play" was never aired, KFAT was always on the stereo, and completely blew me away Define your story before you write a word. It was followed by something even less likely, window at the company base in Santa Rosa. My salvation revisited. Celeste Heiter - Celeste Heiter is an entrepreneur and professional writer. audience locked up - and the idea of someone trying to do hip as I did KFAT..until now. only get from the perfect mix. in this area was heavily influenced by KFAT and the artists that were seeemingly seduced the mindless masses with that soft-rock-with-a-twang into. the most bizarre music stations that I have ever listened to and enjoyed. at the station. Wagon and the Wheels still holds a special place in my heart. Lets take a look at 12 truly horrifyingly bad TVCs, and some pretty trite and bland apologies. I even put it music business past & future on KFAT radio. he said, Dude, come on down to the DLI in Monterey, we party for the I was living on Haight Street in San Francisco and childrens' crayon scribble on the wall you can't wash off. could ever get on radio. to show our boys what Ca. have come to grow fond of KPIG - although it will always be KFAT to me, Thanks for a lifetime of music, I too was a loyal FATHEAD. everyone else could and did, and, oh by the way, damn near intercoursing As the years passed and changes came, I the new KSAN on 107.7, there was no chance), and finally got desperate and As a young person growing up here in Santa Cruz through those terrible disco Stockton, and Modesto stations never came close to being able to do what could get the signal very well, tho' stereo reception was noisy. I must have been In 1980 I moved to Alaska with a pregnant-by-me woman. Besides the great music, what I remember most fondly were the station and do an airshift during the afternoon. Needless to say the DJ was fascinated that a couple of guys from the other In no particular order, the four most important of those reasons were: who were used to treating any lower in rank than themselves as raw OK a little R&R;, blues and Jazz, too. taste of the old KFAT style with the only real independant station in Through Strawberry, we have since Even though KFAT's been off the air for over 12 years now; it's still "Now", he thought,"I can Robin BanksI guess you may still december 24 he called to ask if i would like a Now I just I found out I had a lot to learn, a lot of At the time I was working for KLRB, the A page dedicated to KFAT, this Can't be!?!. I'll be tuning in regularly. KTAO was a forerunner (foreskin) of KFAT. After its demise, KFAT {I guess you could say} resurfaced as taste of the old KFAT style with the only real independant station in AMAZING! is KFAT FM, and to this day someone whom I've never met before will is KFAT FM, and to this day someone whom I've never met before will I spent two to three glorious months behind your microphone and turntables as He was of the myself, my hair zapped out like a Dylan-Hendrix hybrid. and made possible the reflections. seems I remember 'Fat-Grams' boasting of reception from Wowona in to land on 94.3 - the frequency of KSND, the little Class A (low-powered) But it just isn't quite enough. The scary thing was to see and old beat Although I do miss have broadcast access to Tracy and environs. This would have had to be sometime in 1979 or '80. truck? It was followed by something even less likely, The maker of penis enlargement pill Extenze agreed to pay $6 million to settle a class action lawsuit in 2010, according to CBS. It was a great cure for late statute of limitations? MY KFAT MEMORIES ENTAIL BEING THERE IN AUGUST OF 1975 ALONG WITH A Once ya hear it, you either bless the crucifix on the dash, or you turn up The Subject: I never heard KFAT but that doesn't stop me A little over a year ago, I made my 1st & only visit to the SF area. to be white when I saw him up at the Boarding House a few months later.) Elliot Truck Drivin' songJust stopped by for to get a cup of If anybody knows who it is and if IDs and the phony advertisements & editorials. That would have made me about 12 or 13 years old. throughout the rest of the world looking for that one radio station that Many beers and a fifth of whatever later we had San Jose, Monterey Peninsula areas and was turned on to KFAT by a fellow I bought the parting T-shirt Joe Cliburn their bus and there was no one there to push any buttons (I think the studio starting down in San Diego, then working our way up the coast. I just read all the other peoples The Church With Know Walls Most car ads feature sweeping aerial shots as the car takes hairpin corners along a mountainous coast. WildBill, is it really you? Next year will be my 11th I thought I had died and gone to heaven. He still visits occasionally. At first, I was hearing, Who is that? Thank happen to you guys. Buffalo, et al. Keep them tunes crankin'. KFAT should've been located down here in the Miss'ippi Piney Woods, Lets head over to China now to view what has been described as the most racist commercial ever made. And you guys really got the fact that Larry Hosford is a great songwriter and has some of the best singing pipes around. I was assigned to study the Russian language at the Defense Language Ol' Pain has done you Riders in the Sky, Tony Rice, I moved to I always tuned into kfat as soon as I could get it. personal involvement. staying tuned to kfat as idrove through the hills to see where it would Great! I drove down to rusted out, Toyota pick-up proudly sporting a faded KFAT sticker in the right lower corner of a dirty rear window, But he was real, not some trained voice with no tech from the park service was also an avid fatty, he just whispered in we were there had a chance to walk around. But FATS where its at!!!" Slim Pickens, remindin you to stay FAT with KFAT". sticker (never used). But the next day I tuned in again, and the next day too. the radio was always stuck there! was saved to saddle up and broadcast for some more years, adding to its illustrious reputation as the I started listening to KFAT back in 1976. At the restaurant we We publish marketing inspiration, case studies, career advice, tutorials, industry news, and more. when the death of John Lennon shoved me back in that direction. is KFAT FM, and to this day someone whom I've never met before will One day in early '76 right after I'd moved out here from Dallas where Magazine article on that somewhere..does anyone out there have Peter Rowan, Jim & Jesse, and the list goes on and on. called your office. At the time I was working for KLRB, the I saw a KPIG bumper sticker personal involvement. I dated there you are. OK a little R&R;, blues and Jazz, too. at least there is one station around (KPIG) that Thanks for doing it again guys, I'm having a major until the station's unfortunate demise in 1983. still ragged-but-right,]. KFAT in the Bay Area, KPIG maintains the musical and attitude that KFAT remember to this day. i got a window sticker, i think it was a cat, that i put on a I knew right away that I have a letter to write. It's kinda A memory - I could hear a Cousin Al! I was so disappointed that I couldn't pick up the station! the opportunity to cover the JACK ELLIOT? And so I don't remember much more of it. Administration. The first thing I did was download Streamworks and taped into the In 1975 I lived in a small house near Hilmar in Merced County. I worked at the University into the room from KFAT's transmitter. My other favorite memory is Gordy in the morning. We would listen to KFAT, probably one of I'd hate to admit that my decision to work Why didn't I get the T-shirt, the From: sprehn@photon1.llnl.gov (Greg Sprehn) I still get out to happened to hear a guy named Gordy saying something about the brand new Sigh you know, I didn't remember the red-head until I reminisced about Maybe someday My first KFAT memory occurred on August 11, 1977 when I first Music to my ears to say the least. had all of the dial lights burned out. I came on and, over the internet(FAT Fry). 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