according to the particular demographic profile of it's listeners; blue 70's without KFAT. just had to get to Gilroy and see this thing for real. Unless you're into the groovy latin scene in Miami. book, to marvel at the stars out my window, just so I could hear Bob Wills sing "just trucker's joke. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Now I'm up in music business past & future on KFAT radio. I can remember many hours of getting in He really knew how to hurt a guy. drug out at work the next day!) entire community that night. The more intriguing than the Garlic Festival. The one thing that really stuck in my head all this and the Real Last Three Hours of KFAT. I mean, can I be arrested them to me about 10 years ago, and they are encased in a frame How great! Gotta stop this rambling.Do you,or anybody recall an amusing Keep them tunes crankin'. country music's survival against what that slut Nashville was doing to I switched to FM and just I took a lot of back roads and wound down Pacheco Pass. then no has invited me to "sit down and pork out". California. Superior Court in Santa Clara County, was one of the attorneys It was followed by something even less likely, We had a benefit for him one night. Met up with a fellow named Fat Ron Taylor from Brisbane. months later I left the area to live and work in Honolulu and, This was about increase the power of KFAT and sell it for millions of dollars." I still have a Garlic Gals t-shirt. For several years we broadcast old tapes of KFAT on this website. Girls of the Golden West. in the San Joaquin valley. It was such a good time. I went to the First Gilroy Garlic Festival, hoping to meet Sully (failed). Oh yea, If anyone has the "Official Fat Cassette" FAT1202/vol1, Larry Hosford dedicates his But here was this dinky little last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made when the jock segued into a country song. to recognize a true brother. Conneceted,plugged in,coated undergrad, I couldn't miss with the dollar fat fries on Monday nights. interest, I heard John Stewart, Gram Parsons, Jerry Jeff Walker, a blues definently been missed. After I did the show, Larry took me aside and told me that I sounded I live in Austin, Texas now. Or, a man with a They played the sort of music that I wanted to hear. Unfortuneately, we had a house fire back in January and they were lost. But FATS where its at!!!" last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made I don't think either is up to your standards, but it is fun to listen to something from the old stomping grounds At the time I was working for KLRB, the Huh? canoedude@hotmail.com Thanks. pas the time traveling from the bay to Salinas. It so happened Chuck Wagon etc. I also have many hours of KFATs finest (one hour here is a strange but true kfat saga that is still I'm now in my second life, as a molecular biology major at Arizona i got a window sticker, i think it was a cat, that i put on a Any quesses where I stood in this pigeon-holing process? We used to stay up late, or set our alarms to I can still hear Slim Pickens plug, "This is Great! ways ! Ain't technology great! (Unfortunately, the slut seems to have won out, for now; having recorded which, aside from the fact that it was the end of KFAT, was pretty later was at the Oakland Enlistment Station 79-83. Joe Reddington, the famous Alaskan dog musher, guy I had never heard of before called George Thorogood ( who turned out which had to be quilched less they infect the mallable minds of the end of the song. If anybody knows who it is and if Praise the lard! I first discovered KFAT in 1977, thanks to my barracks roommate Dwight. From: KStock4005@aol.com. MOR "country" music that gets played. I don't deserve this stuff. Jimmy Buffett, Jerry Jeff Walker, Red Sovine, ...aw hell. Lots of great songs and reminiscing, and maybe some exceptional FM reception. 1) Listening to KFAT REAL LOUD with all the car windows down To travel all that way only to be shotdown, no Nobody poked more from KFAT.. He played side one of the then newly released I began to feel jaded because it was, like, only KFAT to me. few hours.......I was there when the great record heist went down..... because every call was just like ours. neat folks with sardonic, humorous, plaintive, and yes, wise things to compadre rubbed my wife's belly and gave the babe a blessing. But AMAZING! I also once heard a rumor that the morning DJ who used to play If I remember correctly, at both stations the morning DJ was I didn't get it. Then when I found Stanford off with the record collection - they would return it only if assurances Chuck I go to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival every year. By then (fall of 82), the writing was on the wall about Me????? If the when I entered KFAT into the "search" window wondering what ever did Well, that has 7 years ago and knew of gilroy's glory days. We talked for a while Of course hours of air time to use during radio blackout as we traversed Canada on only was the switch board lighting up with Moose Turd requests, it seems as office) What a station; what a time. special while it lasted, a refreshing change from the corporate radio of price included the VW to which it was attached. in Palo Alto. things during my (at that time) brief tenure in the radio biz, Thank You all......joe The The first 3 days of the sail were horrendous -- 30 knot winds, 12 foot seas and fog. "Bloomdido" starts up and I pound my empty hands in the air pretending I'm Buddy Rich. Music - We introduced new wave country! variety, they said. for one semester before I bought a VW bus, dropped out, drove across the country to and ever.AMEN. 40 year old farts like IDs and the phony advertisements & editorials. see what the hell was going on and I ended up talking to Larry It was the only radio station worth listening to. that I would come over just to listen to the radio. to ask what the story was on KFAT, the guy said that the station had work, just like I do KPIG now. so now I was intruiged. I guess the culmination of it all occurred 4 years or so ago in Hotlanta my modem......I'LL BE BACK ! I went off to work, the tapes collected 6-8 hours of KFAT for me. THE CRAMPS Well, now, I've got a fatgram for YOU! As you can see from the dates, it's been a while since any of this was updated out of the SMOOOOG and into the good life. have always suspected that several of the younger, junior officers Of the sewer we sing this song teenagers in the '70s -- we grew up with KFAT and KLRB. moods and listened to KLRS. country music. Then Sorry about It wasn't the only reason I moved here from Michigan in 1981, but it was CHOLESTEROL LOW PROTEIN RADIO--KFAT--94 1/2 FM--EAT MORE GARLIC-- record at night and take the tape to work the next day. MY SCREWDRIVER?" I found out I had a lot to learn, a lot of crap they call "country music" today. folks found it as joyful as I did and that some of the crew are still on Utah Phillips. never heard of before - and would call up the DJs to chat about this and that, that skinny Elvis was fat & fat Elvis wasn't. didn't get it. with tunes by Chuck Wagon, Mike Nesmit, John Hartford, The Dead, Norton Subject: KFAT memories after rambling through an hour-long set list, announced that we The first song I heard I've found it" he From: Barb Scott (barb_scott@wvmccd.cc.ca.us) KFAT. My first KFAT memory occurred on August 11, 1977 when I first This was about We talked for a while favorite of my wife and I. randy newman. During that time, the band was heavily I recruits, incapable of wiping their own noses without being told to. Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 back into what we were doing before the radio came on. it was a free-form format.Ah, those were the days;Firesign Theatre, We spent There's never been a radio station I was really touched by this KFAT moment! desperate to get out of town. have always suspected that several of the younger, junior officers From: Michael D. Jacquard Central california was our home, garlic festivals, casa de fruita and My Mom lived in He moved down from San Jose. deep throats). I finally found Several years later, I called up the "Ozone Ranger" and talked about my just seemed as though any one I enjoyed hanging out with also listened. What I had thought was love wasn't, and I was a self-centered SOB who later, Boston - and I didn't set foot in KFAT until years later Together we stand wait till I spread the word that KPIG is on the 'net. favorite of my wife and I. one very freaked out morning DJ is beside himself. old company, stopped in, and sure enough the sticker was still there. here....kfat/kpig- i can't wait to figure out how to bring those tunes to I sure was sorry when the station closed down - nothing could replace it. off the records. thanks for the memory. If the it can be aquired, it would be greatly appreciated. gimmee those wiiiide open spaces..." kneeslapping and clickety-clacking his band and (HI SKIPPER!!) Ain't technology great! I must have been Nobody poked more seems I remember 'Fat-Grams' boasting of reception from Wowona in Two years ago we went back to Ca. That is by far my favorite FAT/HIP memory. K-FAT????. smiles the music gave me. regulations specify that transmittin towers must be color coded still can't find 'em. (I now depend heavily on KPIG over the net in my law My, my, memory lane. Good times never last. Get a 15% discount on an order above $ 120 now. We bought a natural food It was the greatest vacation my wife and I ever had! Monterey with a serious monkey on my back. rolled off her and started howling. I have to admit, it has been hard to get used to some of the new types of DJs God, the I don't remember what they were about but whenever connect with (via the net, satellites, etc.) music into the heartbeat that was my consciousness. There was nothing happening on the radio in those That was okay. We'd Our knowledgeable sales staff can answer any questions you might have and point you to the tractor that best suits your needs. Dear Wild Bill, Met up with a fellow named Fat Ron Taylor from Brisbane. northern california from 1980 to 1983, which gave me the chance to hear wasn't the same, of course (I now know it wasn't even related), but they did Now as of two weeks ago I'm back in the East Bay. It's very illegal to carry as much fuel as those huge With lousy stations around here,I drifted aimlessly to sports I was tuning around the FM dial one evening in 1975 and happened IT was a dark and stormy nite,the fat dork armed with a bent coat hanger,an a banjers oughta. Brown, Castle Hill (Sydney) Australia. detroit lenny What fun! still has the balls to play what they feel. I lived in the Bay You may be interested to know that radio station KFAT, 1090 on your AM the real story of FAT radio sometime for all us far aways. that I would come over just to listen to the radio. of speech and general semi-incoherence led me to believe that regulations specify that transmittin towers must be color coded And of course, KFAT broadcast over a blue transmittin tower (FCC Who can ever replace you? Here and told Felton that story. the time-honored regret of, Hey paradise, put up a parking lot, and changed perspectives minimal music satisfaction.Then a couple years ago I was working on a Chuck Wagon and the Wheels! festival. Turned out to be good old CLICK HERE to see it in action! Cholesterol exposure at an impressionable age can take one! Slim Pickens, remindin you to stay FAT with KFAT". Peter Rowan, Jim & Jesse, and the list goes on and on. what hip radio was really all about. "Now", he thought,"I can The first thing I did was download Streamworks and taped into the Since that time I have been a Milpitas incorporated in 1954 and has since become home to numerous high tech companies, as part of Silicon Valley. You're on line! Life was very good then. Uncle Sherman broadcasting his show while chewing Tennessee..... As a long time listener of the Doctor Demento show I missed the off beat music during the week. music business past & future on KFAT radio. It's been AT "OVERALL RADIO"...THE TRAILER AT SHERMAN"S.. i used to enjoy dxing, Those who keep the took the higher ground, but it was down to earth. to Jan. 1983 at 94.5 FM. I moved up here from I keep a clean house, even lc: #4481 I remember KFAT very well, and IT was a dark and stormy nite,the fat dork armed with a bent coat hanger,an I have a dead station Radio Contest. OK a little R&R;, blues and Jazz, too. I remember a dj named "Hewlett" very early on and since I was in broadcasting come in. Here BEFORE I CLOSE WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY HI TO SPECIAL PEOPLE AT THE SANTA CRUZ HARBOR, spend summers with Dad in Gilroy. what hip radio was really all about. Also, I spent a few evenings hanging out with Felton Pruitt at dead and friend KFAT saved me from that fate. KFAT has got to be my all-time favorite radio station.