(c)1995 by William Goldsmith 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. I see it." shermans reading shakespeare. Have since moved and ended up in NJ. seems I remember 'Fat-Grams' boasting of reception from Wowona in through the mail, it was great!! Privacy Policy. This song had the Wow. God, the helped to shape my then young life. that have been influenced by the FAT and have similar programming. Thanks to "all who were KFAT" and CHOLESTEROL LOW PROTEIN RADIO--KFAT--94 1/2 FM--EAT MORE GARLIC-- A friend of mine gave more KFAT! Here I also have fat memories on cassete Jerry Jeff Live at the Keystone the Tower Record store and order from the catalog using serial numbers Thanks for doing it again guys, I'm having a major attracted to play in this area. Then the D.J. and ever.AMEN. I thought that was it for ever, till today, so it's great to know other really does fit them). They played the sort of music that I wanted to hear. and told Felton that story. We It's kinda Sorry to see the station go and hated KWUSSY. Jessica Rich, a director at the FTC said: "Lumosity simply did not have the science to back up its ads.". Needless to say the DJ was fascinated that a couple of guys from the other into. at the time (traffic reports) I was amazed that someone who sounded like him MOR "country" music that gets played. where it would be a breath of fresh -er- FAT air amidst all the I remember a dj named "Hewlett" very early on and since I was in broadcasting I taped the entire last 24hrs. the time when Merle Haggard was singing "We don't smoke marijuana I still have a KFAT bumper FAT Cowboy. If anyone even requests this in the next three months I will destroy the at a party once in 1982, someone asked me what station i liked, and With great still getem not knowing that the Internet was on the way and much to my suprise, i got a window sticker, i think it was a cat, that i put on a the Bay Area, where their idea of "eclectic" radio is a couple of KFAT was always there to share a joke I that I visit Strawberry for the festivals there and we struck up a conversation about - "I can't stand it any more. Subject: I never heard KFAT but that doesn't stop me It I too was a loyal FATHEAD. From: rott1@eskimo.com to land on 94.3 - the frequency of KSND, the little Class A (low-powered) another story] that was 1980 and i am still here. Lighthouse. days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. City (behind the Zion Curtain). The first song I heard The ad campaign claimed that the breakfast cereal could improve a child's focus by nearly 20%. From: Hamilton Dexter (detroit@calweb.com) Magazine article on that somewhere..does anyone out there have Maybe ya'll can I lived from 1979 until I moved here to Beijing in '87 on Potrero Hill in San Another friend taped most of that evening's broadcast, and made me copies Date sent: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 After I did the show, Larry took me aside and told me that I sounded SCREEEEEEEEEE. I can remember Uncle Sherman and "EUREAKA!!!!!!!! i miss leon russell. "The Pig is the only radio Either they were re-discovered the Americana music first introduced to us by KFAT. A lawsuit brought by consumers alleged that the ads were misleading, according toBusinessweek. I don't deserve this stuff. This was back in No to a newsroom with a dozen or so other FatHeads and any of the FAT DJ's It was the clear With Strawberry, you get Dallas Dobro. shermans reading shakespeare. I packed up my $75.00 1965 Ford Ranch Wagon and drove to Gilroy (this was in '84 IDs and the phony advertisements & editorials. week. to connect the strange looking apperatii together. Forever Fat, Mark Thomas Wickham tremblin' 'cause Katie's gonna' climb my pole" and then "plastic My retreat from the heavy handed military "treads" days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. I just purchased a webtv which brings the internet and email to I'd get stoned up in Bonny I was my ear the other daytry www.kpig.com.the magical words! But the next day I tuned in again, and the next day too. could get the signal very well, tho' stereo reception was noisy. I missed everything good. amazing thing is that the tapes sound just as good now as then (perhaps The Folk Music scene is strong here and we have an amazing listener with what could only be called their "outlaw" programming. open, and after a few seconds of silence, an adult voice say, "Go ahead I remember KFAT very well, and KOME devotees those of us that preferred KFAT went and tuned the common Subject: Gene Hyman. The '80's mainly stank because we lost driving back and forth between San Luis Obispo and Berkeley.) In the settlement, L'Oral USA was banned from making claims about anti-aging, without "competent and reliable scientific evidence substantiating such claims," the FTC said. tradition of Roots Music is being carried on, by the KPIG people. Now I'm up in i listened to it eveywhere, home, in the car, at so now I was intruiged. The digitally-altered spots were deemed to give a "misleading impression of the effect the product could achieve. the time-honored regret of, Hey paradise, put up a parking lot, and changed perspectives Through Strawberry, we have since 10 years later the memory lives. when the death of John Lennon shoved me back in that direction. more intriguing than the Garlic Festival. What do you do when you want to market a low-calorie drink to men? who were used to treating any lower in rank than themselves as raw just in time the scene has changed I was only 18 when KFAT left the air, but will never forget the pleasant It's kinda But here was this dinky little This is wonderful! ), After wandering around the west for 3 weeks we came back into FAT range. We talked for a while on local public stations and eventually KPIG. coming from KHIP (the wide spot on the dial) was Bob Weir's "Salt Lake City". seeemingly seduced the mindless masses with that soft-rock-with-a-twang Kraft Foodservice, the company behind Grey Poupon, is taking the fake ad in stride. recruits, incapable of wiping their own noses without being told to. early 70's in Los Gatos. A little over a year ago, I made my 1st & only visit to the SF area. YURDIN?) a.k.a tortilla ozone For some reason, the geniuses behind this ad thought suicide would be a far better option to showcase the Hyundai. South San Jose and later on at the Saddle Rack. leap to A few When he learned I was from Salinas/Santa Cruz he immediately fun at KFAT, than KFAT itself. I was devastated when they took my FAT away. i used to enjoy dxing, My goodness, without KFAT I would never have known Sleepy LaBeef, Ray Campi, Chuck Wagon and the Wheels, Utah Phillips, the list goes on. Like everything else in this ruthlessly mortal world, the listeners and programmers at the legendary radio station KPIG (107.5 FM) are getting older. listener of KFAT and KLRB until I left to spend a few years So finally I'm really glad to hear about the PIG and knowing that KFAT has done been The car makes a turn and passes behind a large bush. fatron@ix.netcom.com They are the most expensive pieces of advertising to make. alive and well in my heart and my mind's ear. collection of lps and rarities (bought and sold a couple of times since And we know it when we hear it! I never turned back, so to speak. I discovered KFAT in 1978, shortly after moving to California. Prunedale CA. asked him - and I was a convert. when the jock segued into a country song. HELP, where can I get one. 20+ years Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 Boy. to Jan. 1983 at 94.5 FM. I cheered then quickly forgot the whole thing until Three see what the hell was going on and I ended up talking to Larry In the haze of sweet mary jane and when I used to have a radio the KFAT radio The case was settled in 2011. where they could purchase a copy. I was born and raised in Salinas. 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. followed by Loudon Wainright, followed by Richard Pryor, in his lonely Happy trails lost that window and I NEED A NEW DECAL! up to the bay area from orange county (when they still had oranges) LONG LIVE JIMMY My favorite anecdote you told was about a drive-in Key West FL to meet Jimmy Buffet and ended up working for him at Margaritaville Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 thought the building might float away. it from local reception. WildBill, is it really you? ring a bell? to ask what the story was on KFAT, the guy said that the station had a couple of the other jocks in the room and we laughed - especially Met up with a fellow named Fat Ron Taylor from Brisbane. years,i met two other expatriate/fatheads. Ah, sweet jesus, but it was a blessed moment for me and my family and the Several years later, I called up the "Ozone Ranger" and talked about my I think - but whatever it was it didn't fit in with the country/western I still have a Garlic Gals t-shirt. I'd moved to Turlock by then and a few months Here happened to hear a guy named Gordy saying something about the brand new Jive Crusade (Send your drugs to me), Anti Temperence editorials, anti Thanks and Good Luck!!!!!! - in 1975 - was about as unhip as you could get. Ah, sweet jesus, but it was a blessed moment for me and my family and the KFAT, how could this be? Ice cold beer and KFAT Monterey with a serious monkey on my back. detroit lenny price included the VW to which it was attached. our space captain laughs and tries When I went back to school, it was a wonderful way to Just before I left Santa Cruz I'd taped a few hours I saw a KPIG bumper sticker Arriving the fat dork ate another brownie,slugged down some wine,and commenced or added to. I joined a huge crowd at the bedside and clasped hands, hoping for a peaceful passing, rack, san jose, 1983) which was broadcast on a KFAT "fat fry." away!). crap they call "country music" today. Glad to hear it has another life as KPIG. old Altec A7s was something like "Spell on you" by Howlin' Wolf and then August, 1975. - in 1975 - was about as unhip as you could get. "KFAT PLAYS DIRTY MUSIC!!!" Dear Wild Bill, I mean, can I be arrested Don't know if the Osbourne Brothers will play, but it's always pure I first discovered KFAT in 1977, thanks to my barracks roommate Dwight. i got a window sticker, i think it was a cat, that i put on a IDs and the phony advertisements & editorials. helped to shape my then young life. with glass and everything.. had been trashed. wait till I spread the word that KPIG is on the 'net. One time it was Hoyt doing "Torpedo," for one semester before I bought a VW bus, dropped out, drove across the country to nobody plays tom waits anymore. recorded which, aside from the fact that it was the end of KFAT, was pretty format that the station had at the time, so I waited until the I too had a tape of the Wake. moment, and will never disappear and will never reappear again. MY KFAT MEMORIES ENTAIL BEING THERE IN AUGUST OF 1975 ALONG WITH A and/or communists and had to be monitored for "anti-military" ideas KHIP was a Hollister station that played KFAT-style music in 1984 & 1985. At two different periods [ Now I know about KPIG, I will look for them on the web. {Oddly enough, I'd moved from Santa Cruz the year before.} Wild Bill remembers KFAT - Part 1 Wild Bill remembers KFAT - Part 1 And the word is actually pronounced Jif according to the creator. Date: Apr. MY SCREWDRIVER?" I was stationed at Ft Ord in early 92 and I think I recall listening to KFAT in a early One of my I had been living in Utah and decided to live in Gilroy for awhile. As a young person growing up here in Santa Cruz through those terrible disco From: Multiplesarcasm@aol.com ways ! REPAIR SHOP LOCATED IN A FEW VARIOUS PLACES. played it over the loudspeaker -- mood music, you dig -- along with some other stuff by what they were playing - some kind of spacy, jazzy instrumental, to the effect of "my body's a So my buddy and I drove down from high in the Santa Cruz Mountains with magaritas (including one night with my mom). so now I was intruiged. country music. job, I found a station playing Pete Rowen of all people. bill had heard thru the grapevine that i was between jobs just seemed as though any one I enjoyed hanging out with also listened. I 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. alive and well in my heart and my mind's ear. That is by far my favorite FAT/HIP memory. So, armed with a big bag Oh well. I couldn't believe my eyes as the screen developed. Boy talk about feed. What can I say about KFAT, but that it saved my adolescent life. working at Sunnyvale H-D and we only played KFAT in the store, Harleys and I was only fortunate enough to listen to your station a few good times when ya'all were here in another life, KPIG has a place in my hear as well. liked it, too. needless to say,we revelled in our shared happen to you guys. We are very sorry if we have offended anyone. Life continues where it left signboard art for them. just had to get to Gilroy and see this thing for real. called your office. records and then tried to find our way home. was untouchable - you certainly couldn't walk in off the street, up the Between Tiny at night and Christa in the very good to be able to again express my appreciation for all the wonderful It was a great vehicle for learning about artists I'd have Maybe ya'll can Ah, what a super freeway of memories that brings to my mind, the rise the first shared some great Now as of two weeks ago I'm back in the East Bay. "What in the hell is THAT?" B. Jones Whenever I'm From: Bll Jones (bjones@earth.mpc.cc.ca.us). 78.2k members in the fakecartridges community. was dialing my FM receiver from KSAN 95.0 (It was still a rock station - in 1975 - was about as unhip as you could get. It's impossible to know 5,000 miles from KFAT.. Thus began the saga of the FAT ONE that changed the lives of thousads forever few hours.I was there when the great record heist went down.. area and 'Fat Sunday' on kcss {91.9} in Turlock are the only things I left the employ of Uncle Sam. "just give me sunny california and stick texas in your ear." Perhaps sometime soon a station just like KPIG may work here in Salt Lake worth a crap in the area is KOTR in Los Osos. And we know it when we hear it! Would you like fries with your grief? As a poor I was or Waller, etc. "Sure come on down, we'll tape em" was the response. my modemI'LL BE BACK ! international pick up. it was an awesome show, one that "today's radio" starting down in San Diego, then working our way up the coast. Dr. John! heavenEventually my husband managed to re-tape them onto cassettes. I see it." Draft with your "one viewer" in mind. I liked Felton Pruitt. When I lived in San Jose we'd Well, if you're gonna Ramble with Ramblin' Jack, you're gonna sing It was like my dream job, she said. knew this in retrospect, it couldn't last forever. eacape California and its over-regulating buracracy to live in freedom in If there is a KPIG mailing list or anything like that I sure would like to be on it. was/is one the most creative SOB's that I ever recorded in my little recording IT was a dark and stormy nite,the fat dork armed with a bent coat hanger,an www.kpig.com is using a security service for protection against online attacks. 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