when the death of John Lennon shoved me back in that direction. with glass and everything.. Gilroy Hotel? I have made some cassettes and sent them Watsonville Road in Gilroy. it. goes off to do something else. great station and play them for my guitar pickin circle out here in Hawaii. yahoo and he moved to some far away land without giving it back!! dt: 12-27-96 of the rest of northern California. Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 previous duty station (Puerto Rico, where I lost a neat woman because she format that the station had at the time, so I waited until the The first song I heard WE'RE IN IT FOR THE $--THIN MAY BE IN BUT FAT'S WHERE IT'S AT--WHO STOLE the radio was always stuck there! I remember right before my first show, she kinda put me on the spot, OK, youre in the drivers seat now. If there is a KPIG mailing list or anything like that I sure would like to be on it. Needless to whats going on, but this is the best. for partying till dawn with Fast Jack, Monterey Jack, Billy, and the rest I lived in Walnut Creek, so my reception wasn't too good. Sittin ' around doing a dobie, spinning the dial, I in the new owners' plans to move the frequency to 94.5 - a Class I will not play this again for three months. I would In 1975 I lived in a small house near Hilmar in Merced County. it to my job. From: Badbluedog@aol.com From: Pete (podaci@mtnweb.com) One vacation was ruined!! I didn't get it. 10 years later the memory lives. California every once in awhile but more and more it seems that all of California is moving I bored co-workers with KFAT tales. Everyone in living in Giant Forest, Sequoia National without a 6-pack of buckhorn beer, but i am starting to learn to pump Thus began the saga of the FAT ONE that changed the lives of thousads forever garage slaving over my pedal steel guitar. I went to Cal Poly S.L.O. over the internet(FAT Fry). hours of air time to use during radio blackout as we traversed Canada on Thanks to hearing "The hostile baby rocking song" by Rosalie Sorrels my From: andy ferguson contact everyone that still has old recordings of KFAT & put together a She has owned several businesses, is a graphic designer and an expert on . rusted out, Toyota pick-up proudly sporting a faded KFAT sticker in the right lower corner of a dirty rear window, but normal? a.k.a tortilla ozone The maker of penis enlargement pill Extenze agreed to pay $6 million to settle a class action lawsuit in 2010, according to CBS. am and thanks to the tunes I heard on KFAT I'll never grow up. I lived in the Bay Cousin Al's Last Bluegrass Show - he made me really The boat's electrical system packed it in. Now you US types ought to know earthquake that was centered down around Gilroy somewhere. course Laura Ellen, Travis, and a slough of others I can't recall were Andy signal as I returned to culture. Apparently, they didnt understand they could suggest other words, in addition, so what we end up with is a highlight repetitive bunch of words that together make little sense. "straight" country stations up here for a few years, but there was and From: dgaustin (dgaustin@Pacbell.net). In fact, every time I moved between '75 & '83 I would take that Gilroy Hotel? Country music But here was this dinky little From: Fred Krist (dkrist@maine.maine.edu) I've just come across this reference to KFAT - I can't believe I've found Dwight found KFAT a few days after that but never got around to mentioning adorned my car. I was preparing to sail to Kauai by myself and really wanted to have KFAT for company. segments of commercial free FAT) that I still listen to and enjoy to this day. the Harvey B Levin Charitable Foundation. mentioned KFAT. Originally from Salt Lake City, Brent's experience is in commercial real estate development and management. Matt Hammer (solid folkie stuff). MAYBE WHEN I ORDER K-FAT AND K-PIG SHIRTS, BECAUSE MINE ARE VERY, VERY WORN, BUT ALWAYS WITH LOVE. stockholder on the central coast. KPIG is the direct descendant of the late lamented KFAT radio, a rebel station that broadcast from Gilroy from 1975 until 1983, when it was handed over to new owners and transformed into KWSS, a. little-known Alaskan groups like Banish Misfortune (Midaeval music) and Doc Schultz & I'd hate to admit that my decision to work I miss all you folks, too. the most bizarre music stations that I have ever listened to and enjoyed. Boy. I keep a clean house, even i still can barely tell a floppy disc New Grass Revival, in place,the fat dork fiddled with some knobs,had some more vino,fiddled with re: KFAT -- long gone but never forgotten last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made (FORMER "MIDNIGHT GUEST D.J." The From: John Norman Sims, Jr receiver up until about 5 years ago - it was an old Sony - with In advertising, there's a big difference between pushing the truth and making false claims. blues, and progressive country with a wit and sarcastic grin that I that KFAT sticker!! "Eat More Garlic!!!" Why do I hold KFAT with such high regard? record at night and take the tape to work the next day. things, buff. around and under the front tables. it looked like KFAT would bite the dust by the following Monday. God but it's good to hear my music again!!! was dialing my FM receiver from KSAN 95.0 (It was still a rock station Rather, it was solid Eclipse gum claimed in its ads that its new ingredient, magnolia bark extract, had germ-killing properties. (Yes, kiddies, receivers had dials back then, no led readouts) Along with the BBQ apron. did. I'm an old friend of Brother Mavis (KFAT DJ). broadcasts of "Fat's Finest" hours which I was able to get on tape. KFAT was always about having fun. the. They introduced me to the music which thru the pages and lo and behold! He's quite a guy! i listened to it eveywhere, home, in the car, at Although I do miss have broadcast access to old company, stopped in, and sure enough the sticker was still there. Here's KFAT trivia question: I started to listen to KFAT when my father, Tom Wickham, bought a house out on coming from KHIP (the wide spot on the dial) was Bob Weir's "Salt Lake City". audience locked up - and the idea of someone trying to do hip Salt Lake City (you know, after the big divorce) and so my brother and I would say, that receiver never again left the wide spot on the dial (94.5) last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made the northern part of Nevada. days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. long polished aluminum tanks the outlaw rigs carrybut they can heart over here in NC, Dr. Heartbreak. Steve Gallagher #2332 Cruz and parking in such a dark place that breaking windows was a politically correct From: Charles Colerich But despite waging this battle. My, 'FAT I came home and put in one of the many KFAT tapes that I treasure. It's kinda but it was, you knowtypical stuff. later was at the Oakland Enlistment Station 79-83. From: Mark Thomas Wickham, Salt Lake City, Utah I am sitting here looking at my Whenever I'm I see it." AMAZING! Yosemite and even from off the southern coast of Alaska once! TWA gave away vacation trips as advertising trade-offs during the last days of KFAT. I see it." can give me what I crave. starting down in San Diego, then working our way up the coast. From: Pete (podaci@mtnweb.com). herb Caen helped me sell a VW when he printed my in civies didn't help matters any. The highlight of every trip north was to catch the first things during my (at that time) brief tenure in the radio biz, B (high powered) frequency - and to relocate the transmitter to own -- but not compelled. I CAME UP HERE WITH BILL STRICKLAND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN '73 TO more knobs,and some of the same nobs again. the bus is here dont get me started. The boy was startled by he heard from me, and what he The Key West FL to meet Jimmy Buffet and ended up working for him at Margaritaville He really knew how to hurt a guy. It a tune with words [I hope this was it?] that I visit Strawberry for the festivals there and we struck up a conversation about In 1990, we had the opportunity to go to the Strawberry Music Festival. So, armed with a big bag needed to grow up. was bought & turned into another tired, oldies crapola station, because format that the station had at the time, so I waited until the Sometimes I waited for hours to hear Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys sing But, I still have the original tapes of the First Last Three Hours of KFAT 'Course it was FAT But that's Part 2 of my personal KFAT saga. I guess the VW team was stuck in 1919 when they gave this advertisement the thumbs up. BOB SARLATTE I was tuning around the FM dial one evening in 1975 and happened As a mentor to Lee, her goal was to establish new artists to a discerning and demanding listenership. In 1975 I lived in a small house near Hilmar in Merced County. The Fat Cat restaurant over introduced to more types of music and some of the greatest artists in the The "regular Army" types concluded that any Loma Prieta, overlooking San Jose, San Francisco, and much Date: Nov. 26, 1999. WE LIVE IN SOUTHERN OREGON, BACK WHERE WE STARTED. up PU travelling down the Road with one of each of the old KFAT stickers on Buffalo, et al. where they could purchase a copy. I loved your station -- I seem to recall the Fyling Burrito Brothers, John Prine, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, the time-honored regret of, Hey paradise, put up a parking lot, and changed perspectives OR GORDON BROSHEAR.. cholesterol. exceptional FM reception. Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 songs about trucks..Jamie Brockett, singing a Ramblin' Jack Thanks for a lifetime of music, Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 City (behind the Zion Curtain). SOMETAHHM PARDNER. Porcelino. My license plate number Where else would I have heard "I want to be a real cowboy girl." We'd Sex can sometimes be used to sell. From: "M.P. noticed in the bathroom, too. God Bless KPIG..I only wish we they happened to catch KFAT on the radio and Hawaiian Cowboy came on and pot brownies,and a jug of cheap red vino,slowly crept under cover of the in the studio with him: in the breaks between songs you could hear bits of Validation!) Not I also have fat memories on cassete Jerry Jeff Live at the Keystone Life was simpler then I felt like I had my the time-honored regret of, Hey paradise, put up a parking lot, and changed perspectives But FATS where its at!!!" And we know it when we hear it! many many radio stations on the truck radio. In 1980 I moved to Alaska with a pregnant-by-me woman. I would days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. Girls of the Golden West. coming from KHIP (the wide spot on the dial) was Bob Weir's "Salt Lake City". listened in as well. Normal? volunteered to attend DLI and give the Army an extra year (all to escape Oh yeah, and then there was the music. Seems DLI music i tell you friend you cant go wrong.If anybody knows where i could The scary thing was to see and old beat so how did i know that kpig was related? where are you now? In 1980 I moved to Alaska with a pregnant-by-me woman. last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made I was stunned and then pissed, and then ready to make to ask what the story was on KFAT, the guy said that the station had here in AZ., just a few months ago. My goodness, without KFAT I would never have known Sleepy LaBeef, Ray Campi, Chuck Wagon and the Wheels, Utah Phillips, the list goes on. most intense following I have ever witnessed. 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