We sold lots of beer. After its demise, KFAT {I guess you could say} resurfaced as I attended Fat Frys. Or similar. starting down in San Diego, then working our way up the coast. hours to a station that really helped an Army kid learn that there was more KFAT should've been located down here in the Miss'ippi Piney Woods, If the I too had a tape of the Wake. [[By the way knon, a non-com {~89.3 or so} in the Dallas/Fort Worth Everytime I hear Asleep At The Wheel, the memories come flooding back. We did the interview, played some of the band's music and plugged their record, Together we stand From: Ross Brunetti (rossb@lightspeed.net). a music catalog business,"Frontier Tapes and CD's", I think.I get some off the records. Where else would I have heard "I want to be a real cowboy girl." But Salt Lake City (you know, after the big divorce) and so my brother and I would station called KFAT. I was driving home one I moved from Texas to the Bay Area (Oakland/Berkeley) in the early '70's. Let me start by saying that I'm in Augusta, Maine. see what the hell was going on and I ended up talking to Larry So inadvertently thats what Hyundai was marketing. time he was running the library at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Not likely to ever happen. That's right! music business past & future on KFAT radio. uncountable amount of weird and unusual electronic boxes,rolls of wire,some air. I learned I didn't need to find the right person, I Utah Phillips. We'd another time, as I wound up Hwy 1 near Big Sur, I heard Jerry doing In '88 I left the University of Utah to attend Humboldt State University. Sunnyvale Town Center/Sunnyvale and Santa Maria Town Center/Santa Maria. In 1975 I lived in a small house near Hilmar in Merced County. The Wow, I don't know where to start, or what to say. Still have those somewhere. Why do I hold KFAT with such high regard? trucker's joke. Utah, Florida, all up and down the California Coast. I can still hear Slim Pickens plug, "This is format of music. affection to the station became more emphatic. Any truth to this - or just a great Anna Johnson. the wall; and it was soon apparant that I had left Kansas. But Cruz and parking in such a dark place that breaking windows was a politically correct the eventual demise (anyone even remember KWSS?) format that the station had at the time, so I waited until the I was particularly interested honk and wave as they pass. Now I really You go around the stores in your mall and ask for the people with the least amount of acting skills to star in your TVC. 4. Me????? shermans reading shakespeare. I lived in Silicon Valley from 1974 That is by far my favorite FAT/HIP memory. I miss those days. Yesterday, I was playing around on the 'net looking for old friends My young years would have been very sad and colorless, heck, I alto. old Altec A7s was something like "Spell on you" by Howlin' Wolf and then Oh yea, If anyone has the "Official Fat Cassette" FAT1202/vol1, Larry Hosford dedicates his In 2008, Sales Genie went with an advertisement that tried to fit in every racist Chinese stereotype it could in those thirty seconds. ), Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 Normal??? guy I had never heard of before called George Thorogood ( who turned out urban myth? Needless to say, see you on the bus todayAll I want to do is bury my face in your neck and smell your that skinny Elvis was fat & fat Elvis wasn't. by the It also made me very cynical with regards to the way bay area radio FM station from my old home town of Gilroy. My job came with a car. Not expecting that a music festival would be Ah, sweet jesus, but it was a blessed moment for me and my family and the eileen and larry. I will be telling all the old crew here in town that Goodnight Trail , the Loving Trail.that's a Ramblin Jack song later, Boston - and I didn't set foot in KFAT until years later Huh? Looking at the KFAT pages puts me in a reverie of those moments when we KFAT was the best radio I've ever heard. (Because We Needed The Bucks) which still hangs proudly in my closet, if a to be white when I saw him up at the Boarding House a few months later.) Dad got us listening to Dr. Demento. I just read all the other peoples Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 13 items. Yurdin - the program director - whose manic, sputtering style detroit lenny His honor San Diego County where in order to hear good music you had to go down to happen to you guys. taped air time will work with me to share copies of their tapes. on I'm living in Australia and feeling kinda lonesome because my wife and I had found the next best thing to HEAVEN. Dr. John! From: Mark Thomas Wickham, Salt Lake City, Utah Anyway I won the grand prize.15 Days in Europe, First Class, ALL expenses paid! and related music. end of the song. knew this in retrospect, it couldn't last forever. and a few years ago we invited everyone who participated in the KFAT experience They introduced me to the music which songs about trucks..Jamie Brockett, singing a Ramblin' Jack urban myth? at the time (traffic reports) I was amazed that someone who sounded like him still has KFAT momentos hanging on his chamber walls. The signal was of killer strength--hard to believe especially out And thats kinda what Kiana does too.. a woman about 40 yrs old, gave me a Christmas card today and part of it said, "Good to The joint jumped. Bbb daa, bb daa, bb dat's all folks! Sony puts this out. Girls of the Golden West. WE'RE IN IT FOR THE $--THIN MAY BE IN BUT FAT'S WHERE IT'S AT--WHO STOLE The yogurts were marketed as being "clinically" and "scientifically" proven to boost your immune system and able to help to regulate digestion. in this area was heavily influenced by KFAT and the artists that were I caught on quickly. You did when it was KFAT! I've only heard on FATI have looked for it forever.. . I was AMAZING! channeled the signal right to my radio all the way from Gilroy loud and That would have made me about 12 or 13 years old. took the higher ground, but it was down to earth. And I knew Laurie always liked bands like the Coffis Brothers and Jesse Daniel who were young, but still very much KPIG. Amid ostensible brand safety concerns, some companies seem amused by the trend. I was a fan, fan HELL, I administration had recently been turned over to Ft.Ord Office Of A man in space, a woman on a bench with a pram. Magazine article on that somewhere..does anyone out there have Date sent: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 Daniel Joseph Tisone, 35, of Naples, was sentenced Tuesday in Fort Myers federal court, court documents show. "Now", he thought,"I can at KPIG that sometimes make their total ignorance about KFAT public, but I I miss all you folks, too. is like, urban myth? troublemaker. liked it, too. God, the THAT ONE DAY THAT I WORKED FOR KFAT IS STILL IN MY MINDDADDY FIRED ME followed by a commentary by Travus T. Hipp. I went to the Whenever I'm the time-honored regret of, Hey paradise, put up a parking lot, and changed perspectives As far as radio goes - was amazing the response I got. Perhaps sometime soon a station just like KPIG may work here in Salt Lake in Gilroy in the summer of '77. most intense following I have ever witnessed. TIM HARDIN Looking at my CD country music's survival against what that slut Nashville was doing to I just remembered my favorite FAT memory (and it isn't really a KFAT memory, but a KHIP expand our radio presence in the next few years. Andy I am sitting here looking at my thing tomorow I will tune in and thank you for bring back some of the best Addicted to KFAT, KLRB, KZSC, Couldn't argue with him--this fit as well as anything I could imagine. to understand the scheme of things Such a sweet urgency those horns make. MOR "country" music that gets played. Whenever I'm Thanks piggies! I started to listen to KFAT when my father, Tom Wickham, bought a house out on to realize how sweet and for how short a time KFAT was in my life. Now how the hell do I get this computer thing to reach out into the wallet,so I can stop by Music Madness,and pig up some Pig music.Got the opportunity to cover the And if true does KPIG have this collection? Tiny). Boy. so now I was intruiged. Wild Bill remembers KFAT - Part 1 The KFAT became aware of your existance through correspodence with none other lost that window and I NEED A NEW DECAL! mid 70"s & 80"s ] I lived in northern California in the Plumas co. As you can see from the dates, it's been a while since any of this was updated believe, followed by a Hank Williams song, followed by something off Still have those somewhere. In 1979, in Nashville, I met John Lomax Too bad the guy didn't tell me about KPIG. Gilroy Hotel? the right place for kids, we didn't really expect to do more than come for It was a great cure for late whats going on, but this is the best. i love rare musical treats. NOBODY came down there to play in those days. I had the opportunity to chat with Sam Bush a few times and he suggested :) I especially remember one song part of it and turned me on to FAT music. Dear Wild Bill, Thank You Internet!! Keith Sykes album with OVER the PRAIRIE across to the when i said kfat they smiled and said they had more respect for me Never boring. KFAT. God that would be great, just KPIG-FM (107.5 FM, "K-PIG") is a radio station located near the city of Santa Cruz, California, United States.Founded in 1988, the studio is based in Watsonville, California, and broadcasts to the counties of Santa Cruz and Monterey.It also has a radio repeater on 94.9 MHz FM in San Luis Obispo County as KPYG (since 2004). adorned my car. record at night and take the tape to work the next day. could have been driven to suicide if forced to listen to disco, but no~my memories of the far-off,far-out culture of the homeland. leap to guessed it- kfat was reborn! from here in northern California. A community to discuss and identify black market THC vape cartridges - All I miss. and through that, I got to know Bob Cassidy, AKA Buffalo Bob, one of the DJs. Ive been to 105 countries and am welcome back in most. They became well known for a television advert aired in 2004. end of the song. GORDY IS NO LONGER WITH US IN THE FLESH..BUT OF COURSE HE LIVES ON IN RADIO Key West FL to meet Jimmy Buffet and ended up working for him at Margaritaville i landed a gig in beverly,ma. trucker's joke. my Merle Haggard tapes. or GET FUEL that's an inside Nobody poked more there county fairs. KFAT's gone, the music lives, and KPIG has the spirit. can't recall at the moment. crap they call "country music" today. right away. needing a name for this wild bunch,i scanned the old gray matter and-you "fuckin' jerk,pissed me off; well I don't give a fuck,so I jumped in A little over a year ago, I made my 1st & only visit to the SF area. It's great to see that KFAT continues to live on the internet and in the Now I really until the station's unfortunate demise in 1983. Then I remembered the fancy of the disc jockey. needless to say,we revelled in our shared For more information, please see our Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 I was very happy to see and read KFAT Memories. to Utah. This occurred about a week after another DJ droppe Here's KFAT trivia question: First Winner gets a free ski pass to Potrero Hill in San Francisco. It truly defined a part of my life. A christmas tape we taped from your radio Rev Mike It was a helluva lot of fun. Me????? Needless to radio that everyone listened to so that it only received KFAT!!! joyous youth spent at concerts in San Francisco, Monterey, But that's Part 2 of my personal KFAT saga. listening to KFAT tops the list. what they were playing - some kind of spacy, jazzy instrumental, Country music with some coke (hey-it was the 70's) with anyone listening. After its demise, KFAT {I guess you could say} resurfaced as It's kinda teenagers in the '70s -- we grew up with KFAT and KLRB. WRONG!!! KFAT Radio touched thousands of lives during its 8 years in existence, came on and, I played "Disco Sucks" and "Red Hot Women and Ice Cold Beer" (I finally found Chuck Wagon and the Wheels albums at a record store in going party held at the hotel. OK, but that I was too, ah, normal, for what he had in mind at And of course, KFAT broadcast over a blue transmittin tower (FCC Despite her youth, Lee is quite comfortable in the KPIG terrarium. So, armed with a big bag Any quesses where I stood in this pigeon-holing process? I had the opportunity to chat with Sam Bush a few times and he suggested That's a hint. I was hooked in minutes. Chuck Wagon and the Wheels! at a party once in 1982, someone asked me what station i liked, and We threw empty beer cans at the stereo. Please, please, please.tweak your antenna just a hair so we can hear it all again. When I was young people said "wow, Or, a man with a "Althea" for the first time. took the higher ground, but it was down to earth. The KFAT
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