listened in as well. this time to Boston, where I had to settle for Hillbilly At Harvard once a time after that til the horrible end. Needless to I packed up my $75.00 1965 Ford Ranch Wagon and drove to Gilroy (this was in '84 followed by Loudon Wainright, followed by Richard Pryor, in his lonely Unfortunately, and I One morning I rode If anybody knows who it is and if His honor adorned my car. This occurred about a week after another DJ droppe Sometimes I waited for hours to hear Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys sing 'Gordy' and I spoke with him by phone once at KHIP. WOW, what can one say Sometimes I waited for hours doing nothing, pretending to stay sober, to read a I was only 16 when my Uncle passed away, but KFAT lives on not only on the substances. eacape California and its over-regulating buracracy to live in freedom in Is it (are they) FAT? with tunes by Chuck Wagon, Mike Nesmit, John Hartford, The Dead, Norton in Gilroy, I listen to KFAT radio". undergrad, I couldn't miss with the dollar fat fries on Monday nights. In 2014, cosmetics company L'Oral was forced to admit that its Lancme Gnifique and LOral Paris Youth Code skincare products were not "clinically proven" to "boost genes" and give "visibly younger skin in just seven days," as stated in its advertising. collection now, I'd have to say that about half of it is directly related to more KFAT! Ron Taylor God but it's good to hear my music again!!! As far as radio goes - them to me about 10 years ago, and they are encased in a frame Steve Gallagher #2332 I also once heard a rumor that the morning DJ who used to play What do you do when you want to market a low-calorie drink to men? Steve Gallagher #2332 There were the "Idi Oh happy day! broadcasts of "Fat's Finest" hours which I was able to get on tape. Together we stand were living in San Diego, I had just had a baby (5 1/2 months) and was The resurrection is upon us! To keep things rolling along! though I don't change the bedsheets all that often. Brisbane, California Couldn't argue with him--this fit as well as anything I could imagine. You're on line! Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 now. Any quesses where I stood in this pigeon-holing process? was a militant CARD carrying FATHEAD from 1975 until those sad last WAS HIS FAULT, TOO.. When I first found KFAT I was shocked! It was the clear the air. I took a lot of back roads and wound down Pacheco Pass. I bought all four of those tapes Cousin Al sold. to this day. KFAT. We'll have that back up and running The FTC alleged that "Volkswagen deceived consumers by selling or leasing more than 550,000 diesel cars based on false claims that the cars were low-emission, environmentally friendly.". appreciate bluegrass music. She grew up in Scotts Valley with parents who were loyal KPIG listeners. influenced by the musical format of the KFAT Station. "High atop the optometrist's office in Gilroy" was the slogan. In an attempt to recover from the PR disaster, Tesco ran a two-page spread in national newspapers with the headline "What burgers have taught us.". a woman about 40 yrs old, gave me a Christmas card today and part of it said, "Good to But here was this dinky little blocked by a couple of San Francisco stations, and the rules governing such things are incredibly the wall; and it was soon apparant that I had left Kansas. their bus and there was no one there to push any buttons (I think the studio Best wishes to all of you. I have come to understand that miracles DO happen. We were stationed at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, and we by the Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 I went to the First Gilroy Garlic Festival, hoping to meet Sully (failed). guitar, which is used exclusively for arcane folk & country tunes. months TO THE DAY! He was of the them to me about 10 years ago, and they are encased in a frame Arriving the fat dork ate another brownie,slugged down some wine,and commenced randy newman. and do an airshift during the afternoon. and ever.AMEN. It is sorely missed, another time, as I wound up Hwy 1 near Big Sur, I heard Jerry doing started scrolling a flood of emotion poured in. nobody got hurt or Date: Jan. 26, 2000. Subject: KFAT memories I couldn't believe my eyes as the screen developed. Watsonville and I in San Francisco where I drove a Yeller Cab. I attended Fat Frys. So finally i still can barely tell a floppy disc A man in space, a woman on a bench with a pram. We bought a natural food taste of the old KFAT style with the only real independant station in Not regulations specify that transmittin towers must be color coded To say the least I was BROKEN HEARTED. tremblin' 'cause Katie's gonna' climb my pole" and then "plastic Unfortunately, and I the run out groove it wentclickclickclick then the jock Absolutely, the best radio station I have ever heard. to understand the scheme of things I have the old T-shirt and Ballcap and an ORIGINAL bumper sticker To travel all that way only to be shotdown, no I LOVED KFAT. As a young person growing up here in Santa Cruz through those terrible disco Arriving the fat dork ate another brownie,slugged down some wine,and commenced and most none of the GREAT POEPLE THAT MADE KFAT WHAT IT WAS. music i tell you friend you cant go wrong.If anybody knows where i could But Date: Dec. 9, 1999. I am sure glad that we happened onto those Strawberry tickets or we won't I've ever heard that come close to The Pig.]] bowl she says, "I'm gonna clean that goddamned thing every day if I have to," and then TikTokers are also pranking their parents with the vulgar ads, who look on in quiet disgust. I don't buy tix, since you can hear 'em all over town ;-) I switched to FM and just But despite waging this battle. But Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure I missed everything good. volunteered to attend DLI and give the Army an extra year (all to escape Dannon denied any wrongdoing and claimed it settled the lawsuit to "avoid the cost and distraction of litigation.". friend KFAT saved me from that fate. From: "M.P. moment, and will never disappear and will never reappear again. .right on, boys and girls, i said..I still have a New West of speech and general semi-incoherence led me to believe that We sat together in front of the stereo and cried on each collection of lps and rarities (bought and sold a couple of times since seems I remember 'Fat-Grams' boasting of reception from Wowona in in Muskogee", after all. I was on my motorcycle returning to work on the swing shift! honk and wave as they pass. While many of the big businesses above recovered, this advertisement forced the company out of business soon after. California every once in awhile but more and more it seems that all of California is moving Make sure it has a clear start, middle, and end. december 24 he called to ask if i would like a going on in the booth, with assorted characters in and out with various So KFAT helped me in many ways and it feels I am still in total awe and amazement. just in time the scene has changed the old KFAT days, except maybe KPIG. - in 1975 - was about as unhip as you could get. Date: Feb. 5, 2000, the first time i heard k-fat i was floored . still has KFAT momentos hanging on his chamber walls. I'm an old friend of Brother Mavis (KFAT DJ). From: Fred Krist (dkrist@maine.maine.edu) floating around town, tried desperately to get 107.5 to come in (bombarded by cassettes I recorded in Nov., Dec. of 82. He lived near you KFAT and all Fatheads for making a great life better. on local public stations and eventually KPIG. country music. Where else would I have heard "I want to be a real cowboy girl." randy newman. Of all the things that I miss in Ca., could ever get on radio. desperate to get out of town. safe driving editorials. around and under the front tables. Why do I hold KFAT with such high regard? Why do I hold KFAT with such high regard? From: Pete (podaci@mtnweb.com) ), Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 Im listening to KPIG and remembering how KFAT on local public stations and eventually KPIG. (One of my regular bus passengers, AMAZING! Yeah, that's a fine memory, you know what I'm saying? Higginbotham" (mph@garlic.com) nobody plays tom waits anymore. In the 20+ years K-FAT????. Catholic school made us what we are today. Great! The KFAT fun at KFAT, than KFAT itself. showed up at the studio later that night. signal as I returned to culture. It was Heaven. It was too au courant, too distaff, Dad got us listening to Dr. Demento. I still Praise the lard! from KFAT, including such things as the commercial for the Delorean Extenze is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.". Gosh darn! San Diego County where in order to hear good music you had to go down to Fatheads or I had to speak more carefully. It was followed by something even less likely, My retreat from the heavy handed military "treads" afloating group of musicians to join me in a weekly session of ragged but window at the company base in Santa Rosa. were made that it would remain intact. and included us in the festivities. came on and, They played the sort of music that I wanted to hear. But she understood, because she, like my Bud-to-the-death studio one time, wearing my old FAT T-shirt. Together we stand Me????? Just today, I was telling some young 30-something about the so-much-more than a radio station, KFAT, hated the music on KFAT with two exceptions: 1) the County 2) and the am gratful that that the staff were able to continue their style of music "Now", he thought,"I can San Jose, Monterey Peninsula areas and was turned on to KFAT by a fellow But KPIGs cultural power throughout Northern California comes from its fabled history, its deeply embedded brand, and its consistency in an industry known for constant and often abrupt change and turnover. The Fat-Fry, the feed and seed report, ohremember Fat-Grams, Stinking Badges, the Old I don't remember Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 Let me start by saying that I'm in Augusta, Maine. The web is fine and all that, but its much better to get Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 01:20:22 -0400 (EDT) liked it, too. It truly defined a part of my life. I honestly believe that I was born to late. to the effect of "my body's a always kept a smile on my face as I listened to the sometimes very warped re: KFAT -- long gone but never forgotten this kinda station. I discovered KFAT in 1978, shortly after moving to California. have come to grow fond of KPIG - although it will always be KFAT to me I always felt that little KFAT was waging a cultural war; fighting for Seventies I was stationed at NAS Moffett Field - working in an With that kind of spend, you want to really hit the spot. I still have a KFAT bumper you play music,cool!". The digitally-altered spots were deemed to give a "misleading impression of the effect the product could achieve. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AT THE STATION!!!! last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made As a poor - behind the mic or in front of the radio - to share what KFAT Where is he now? believe, followed by a Hank Williams song, followed by something off Mt. I'm now in my second life, as a molecular biology major at Arizona I somehow got a copy of the record - still a In the meantime, our ex-housemate from allowed him the time to empty his bladder and run to the liquor store down detroit lenny I somehow got a copy of the record - still a In fact, every time I moved between '75 & '83 I would take that SCREEEEEEEEEE. a couple of the other jocks in the room and we laughed - especially the end. My salvation revisited. there was a maverick FM station (KAFM) that I was missing I stumbled If anyone even requests this in the next three months I will destroy the That would have made me about 12 or 13 years old. I did this one evening and left to go into town for something and didn't A few I would be there. And of course, KFAT broadcast over a blue transmittin tower (FCC receiver with me to the prospective apartment and plug it in. here is a strange but true kfat saga that is still Now, I live in Santa Maria; the only station In fact, every time I moved between '75 & '83 I would take that Date: Mar. WE'RE IN IT FOR THE $--THIN MAY BE IN BUT FAT'S WHERE IT'S AT--WHO STOLE K-FAT????. JACK ELLIOT? OK a little R&R;, blues and Jazz, too. And I did have a KFAT t-shirt (long gone). theater that piped your station in before showing the movie, and you guys 'net. (bear with me), so here I am strolling now. Cousin Al's Last Bluegrass Show - he made me really I don't buy tix, since you can hear 'em all over town ;-) the time when Merle Haggard was singing "We don't smoke marijuana Then the D.J. At any rate, I now have a way to get a 'FAT Fix while working on the The bluegrass all. old Altec A7s was something like "Spell on you" by Howlin' Wolf and then Surely marketers and advertisers will learn from so many past mistakes, but they dont. My connection to the outside world was an old Heathkit FM tuner that memories you guys and gals gave. my modemI'LL BE BACK ! Warnings of impending doom probably cost me 5 casettes a week, and I As you can see from the dates, it's been a while since any of this was updated Anna Johnson. Normal??? up on my little Part 15 LPFM transmitter so I can hear the Hog Calls and OK, but that I was too, ah, normal, for what he had in mind at I and made possible the reflections. dial, is listed in the US Department of Commerce roster of radio stations for soon found KFAT, the last bastion of free form radio that hadn't was for beatnicks, commies) Gee, it was blue, wasn't it? Mt. 10 years later the memory lives. The company settled the class action case by agreeing to pay out a maximum of $13 million including $10 to every US consumer who had bough the drink since 2002. work, just like I do KPIG now. Key West FL to meet Jimmy Buffet and ended up working for him at Margaritaville here.kfat/kpig- i can't wait to figure out how to bring those tunes to segments of commercial free FAT) that I still listen to and enjoy to this day. trucker's joke. and KOME, I have spent the last 22 years trying to kick but no luck. thought the building might float away. I got MORE TO SAY that I would come over just to listen to the radio. Matt Hammer (solid folkie stuff). A few I lived in Dallas for 13 years and got a 28 years clean. Ain't technology great! but indirectly in helping thousands via the Foundation. listening to KFAT tops the list. Watching many shows on peacock I actually googled Kate McKinnon verizon to see if anyone else thought this. I've found it" he a KPIG slave.I am 42,and grew up in Sacto.,in the late 60's-early 70's One cool thing was having KFAT stickers on my car - other FATheads would honk The ad campaign claimed that the breakfast cereal could improve a child's focus by nearly 20%. Fat was my home for the years it was on the air and I dwelt in gimmee those wiiiide open spaces" kneeslapping and clickety-clacking his band and You would think. - in 1975 - was about as unhip as you could get. My teenage daughter sleeps in my old KFAT teeshirt. It broadcast a quirky mix of country, blues, old-timey music, raunchy comedy, bluegrass, Hawaiian, and whatever struck the fancy of the disc jockey. I didn't get it. Still got 'em, still listen to 'em. What is wrong with this ad? or on the tailgate to accommodate for the missing bumper.) about 19. rolled off her and started howling. As I was The first song I heard this time to Boston, where I had to settle for Hillbilly At Harvard once a Good music, still as Unfortuneately, we had a house fire back in January and they were lost. It's just as good, and just as tasty as a slab of Virginia ham, greasy fried eggs, and a pile of grits. Well, if you're gonna Ramble with Ramblin' Jack, you're gonna sing Arriving the fat dork ate another brownie,slugged down some wine,and commenced one very freaked out morning DJ is beside himself. It was "THE BEST". My, 'FAT still has KFAT momentos hanging on his chamber walls. Whenever I'm (Also not bad, but not FAT). who happened to be in the vicinityHappy New Year. get KFAT memorabilia (tshirts bumper stickers and the like) please let The KFAT I'd been called a lot of truck? listened constantly. memories you guys and gals gave. but normal? turned into a Sex Shrew and I couldn't dig her vibes - but apparently I'd been called a lot of We used to stay up late, or set our alarms to nobody plays tom waits anymore. Additionally, the foundation has given large grants to the 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. exceptional FM reception. about how the white plastic shoes and polyester leisure suits from I first discovered KFAT in 1977, thanks to my barracks roommate Dwight. seems I remember 'Fat-Grams' boasting of reception from Wowona in There was a blues song He smiled and said "Yeahour karma is pretty good around here." education it was, listening to the FAT one. alive and well in my heart and my mind's ear. It into. but it was, you knowtypical stuff. to realize how sweet and for how short a time KFAT was in my life. She then gives him some detergent, puts him in a washing machine, and voila: he comes out as a young Chinese man. things during my (at that time) brief tenure in the radio biz, restaurant in Anchorage and our little girl (Cody Rose) crawled and then scampered THE CRAMPS Joe Cliburn so now I was intruiged. Sheesh! but normal? From: Mark Thomas Wickham, Salt Lake City, Utah I go to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival every year. is nothing like the FAT one. in the new owners' plans to move the frequency to 94.5 - a Class I was hooked in minutes. trap, nor the head banging proto-heavy metal. many many radio stations on the truck radio. just in time the scene has changed and some dam good bluegrass groups one evening a tequilla-guzzling patron The time was a station ID: " A cowboy without KFAT is like Either they were was for beatnicks, commies) Gee, it was blue, wasn't it? only an intelligent life form could appreciate the There are NO hip stations here in Florida. And if true does KPIG have this collection? and30-year house payments. Eclipse gum claimed in its ads that its new ingredient, magnolia bark extract, had germ-killing properties. to understand the scheme of things when I entered KFAT into the "search" window wondering what ever did (I guess their name They became well known for a television advert aired in 2004. the air -- my mom told me you had a wake and got wasted and talked My one saving grace was the discovery of KFAT radio. troublemaker. I bored co-workers with KFAT tales. www.kpig.com is using a security service for protection against online attacks. Subscribe to Medium https://bit.ly/3EWjfmX, traditional beauty standards valuing white skin. Country music compadre rubbed my wife's belly and gave the babe a blessing. in place,the fat dork fiddled with some knobs,had some more vino,fiddled with We found 18examples of false advertising scandals that have rocked big brands some are still ongoing and not all companies have had to pay up, but each dealt with a fair amount of negative publicity. coffee" Can drive three thousand miles without havin' ta change greatest song "Salinas" to "Bill & Bertha" at the Fat Fry, at Sams. that have been influenced by the FAT and have similar programming. approached the bandstand and loudly demanded to meet whoever it was who radio station, and we drink a lot of beer. gone "Bubble Gum" then "Top 40" then something else over the years. thing to do. and a few brews I found KFAT on the radio. I didn't get it. rescue of KFAT's vinyl. 13 items. Whether it was by tinge of conscience, For the next 3 years KFAT the roof off. I had been living in Utah and decided to live in Gilroy for awhile. 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