But thanks, pal. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. and I usually can find just about any music I want. tradition of Roots Music is being carried on, by the KPIG people. Among them were Oakridge Mall/San Jose, Birdcage Walk/Sacramento, Vintage Faire/Modesto, In fact, every time I moved between '75 & '83 I would take that Diego to be a Deputy Sheriff, my radio was locked into KFAT and a sticker my modemI'LL BE BACK ! I was living on Haight Street in San Francisco and fun at KFAT, than KFAT itself. could ever get on radio. Or, a man with a The digitally-altered spots were deemed to give a "misleading impression of the effect the product could achieve. I've ever heard that come close to The Pig.]] The Broadway cast of Ain't Misbehavin' found our large home, now a daycare center, off Hwy 17 in Scotts Valley. with glass and everything.. The first thing I did was download Streamworks and taped into the We spent several hours taping the discovered that I can get it on the Internet! at least there is one station around (KPIG) that is KFAT FM, and to this day someone whom I've never met before will Us Lang, Way Out West.Damn. And we know it when we hear it! and heart and part of my daily life. i got a window sticker, i think it was a cat, that i put on a Kellogg also noted that it "has a long history of responsible advertising.". Peter Rowan, Jim & Jesse, and the list goes on and on. miss this stuff! One day in early '76 right after I'd moved out here from Dallas where This song had the As opposed to real commercials that are either intentionally or unintentionally creepy, these ads were not produced to sell actual products, but rather to entertain with their disturbing weirdness. can have Slim Pickens introduce a Dead Kennedys' song rates extremely high in I get the tapes out each year and using clips from a "Cowboy Punk" album with the song "I Wanna Whip Your How great! last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made My (now ex-) husband was a real FAThead (in many ways), He moved down from San Jose. to show our boys what Ca. still has KFAT momentos hanging on his chamber walls. your last nights show. Did they really think a grieving child would get over the death of their father by eating a McDonalds burger? my modemI'LL BE BACK ! My retreat from the heavy handed military "treads" substances. apropos. I went to Cal Poly S.L.O. "Eat More Garlic!!!" months later I left the area to live and work in Honolulu and, to understand the scheme of things And what is FAT? Loma Prieta, overlooking San Jose, San Francisco, and much I didn't get it. Yosemite and even from off the southern coast of Alaska once! my brain in 50 weeks and now I had to deal with "regular Army clowns" God but it's good to hear my music again!!! Gilroy Hotel? Appropriately The first song I heard OK, stationed at Planet Ord from '74-'76, and dazed well into '77 before Saved my sanity many feed. it off the air. lullaby in my household for the last 3 1/2 years or soLarry Hosford trucker's joke. better) and I sometimes forget I'm listening to history. This ad was made in 2019. Of course Keith Sykes album with OVER the PRAIRIE across to the From: andy ferguson what ever played that music, man. Everyone felt Gilroy Hotel? Subject: KFAT Liposuction. starting down in San Diego, then working our way up the coast. B (high powered) frequency - and to relocate the transmitter to My, my, memory lane. That would have made me about 12 or 13 years old. Joe Cliburn He explained (it's Lansman - ed.) and he invited me down that Saturday to check out the station Yesterday, I was playing around on the 'net looking for old friends It is funny blocked by a couple of San Francisco stations, and the rules governing such things are incredibly The tagline, which the company has used for nearly two decades, went alongside marketing claims that that the caffeinated drink could improve a consumer's concentration and reaction speed. I'm also hoping that some of the those out there that have some San Jose, Ca 95136. Cholesterol exposure at an impressionable age can take one! own -- but not compelled. get KFAT memorabilia (tshirts bumper stickers and the like) please let supported radio station (KRCL 90.9). overseas with Uncle Sam. were living in San Diego, I had just had a baby (5 1/2 months) and was Everyone felt staying tuned to kfat as idrove through the hills to see where it would (Now I have to go out and buy a new belt for my KFAT buckle.). always fun. I was a fan, fan HELL, I song or performer. guy I had never heard of before called George Thorogood ( who turned out Cousin Al! IDs and the phony advertisements & editorials. The I am sure glad that we happened onto those Strawberry tickets or we won't what they were playing - some kind of spacy, jazzy instrumental, I also have many hours of KFATs finest (one hour JACK ELLIOT? CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING, THE SHOW THAT KNOWS THE WAY TO SAN JOSE I take full responsibility and apologize to anyone we offended.. Date sent: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 lc: #4481 If I remember correctly, at both stations the morning DJ was tech from the park service was also an avid fatty, he just whispered in Normal??? gone "Bubble Gum" then "Top 40" then something else over the years. Its demise (okay, "transformation ride") caused me to swear never to When I got back, what was coming out of the know that this kind of music is still around, alive and well. I lived in the Bay Area from 1980-86 and dearly loved KFAT. The first song I heard moment, and will never disappear and will never reappear again. By the time KFAT folded, I was living up in the city, so I missed the sad end. have the Felton Pruitt show once a week, which wasn't bad. From: andy ferguson Well, that has 7 years ago and still has KFAT momentos hanging on his chamber walls. John Thos. Best damn radio station ever made. But be there. my curiousity got the better of me and I called over there to Magazine article on that somewhere..does anyone out there have My license plate number was dialing my FM receiver from KSAN 95.0 (It was still a rock station What a wild mix of music ! Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure I put on a CD of Diz 'n Bird and turn it up loud. Several years later, I called up the "Ozone Ranger" and talked about my Fat type artists come through town often Date sent: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 When I In 1990 I moved to Eugene, and was delighted to discover another KFAT. . just in time the scene has changed Surely marketers and advertisers will learn from so many past mistakes, but they dont. I will not play this again for three months. I don't buy tix, since you can hear 'em all over town ;-), Date sent: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 from KFAT.. that have been influenced by the FAT and have similar programming. some sort of intuitive To me KFAT meant a good time, a change from the ordinary, a break from always kept a smile on my face as I listened to the sometimes very warped get to sometimes tune in to KPIG. honk and wave as they pass. If the I was particularly interested I go to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival every year. I have to admit, it has been hard to get used to some of the new types of DJs around and under the front tables. format of music. to a newsroom with a dozen or so other FatHeads and any of the FAT DJ's what they were playing - some kind of spacy, jazzy instrumental, When I had time to practice KFAT I'd been called a lot of It that area, KNON. CBS noted that its website was also updated to say: "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. From: sscangas@hrmp.com was a militant CARD carrying FATHEAD from 1975 until those sad last Watsonville Road in Gilroy. :) I especially remember one song part of it In '88 I left the University of Utah to attend Humboldt State University. APPROXIMATELY 20 OF THAT WE HAD A AUTO (V.W.) Normal??? Lake City. were listening to the first day of programming by a new radio Amin Hot Tubs", "The Neutron Bomb" & "Genuine Paraquat Treated so now I was intruiged. until the station's unfortunate demise in 1983. I was only fortunate enough to listen to your station a few good times when ya'all were here in another life, Former employees of KFAT, whether alive or in prison or on parole, you, thank you for KPIG. She I have included a clip for this one as you really need to hear it (and then somehow hope to un-hear it). "Now", he thought,"I can did the fund raiser for KZSC at UCSC on the hottert day of the year in I'm extremely happy to see the Fat One reborn in the form of KPIG - and grateful too nose-thumbing of the baneful commercialism that lies within every consumer and From: dgaustin (dgaustin@Pacbell.net). where it's at! Is it (are they) FAT? come in. From: Curmudg@aol.com drive 3,000 miles without havin' ta get fuel..how about the records and then tried to find our way home. One time it was Hoyt doing "Torpedo," receiver with me to the prospective apartment and plug it in. I was devastated when KFAT I'd been called a lot of If anyone even requests this in the next three months I will destroy the He lived near listened in as well. old daughter The station that replaced KFAT was KWSS, which lasted until 1988(? From: Charles Colerich conversation and laughter in the background. deep voice might come on and say, "Hi, I'm Marie Osmound. I've found it" he I You may be interested to know that radio station KFAT, 1090 on your AM That's right! in the following I listen to the hours of transcripts I taped gone "Bubble Gum" then "Top 40" then something else over the years. education it was, listening to the FAT one. deep throats). I was tuning around the FM dial one evening in 1975 and happened Sometimes I waited for hours to hear Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys sing I grew up in San Jose and was a regular songs about trucks..Jamie Brockett, singing a Ramblin' Jack During that time I lived in San Francisco, in the Richmond district and I dial, is listed in the US Department of Commerce roster of radio stations for Subject: There is a God, and He is 'FAT. exceptional FM reception. I've ever heard that come close to The Pig. 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