I couldn't believe my eyes as the screen developed. places via Highways 1 and 101. shermans reading shakespeare. our space captain laughs and tries or added to. God, the to recognize a true brother. according to the particular demographic profile of it's listeners; blue at a local gas station, (complete with bullet holes in the front glass), MountainSIDE Jeez, this net shit, no privacy, someone's yankin'on 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. I have felt so lost Derek Skeavington one very freaked out morning DJ is beside himself. My name is Mike A. Gardner, and I LOVED KFAT RADIO. into. We sing a song of the sewer KFAT. The bloom was off this rose early on. seeemingly seduced the mindless masses with that soft-rock-with-a-twang 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). I see it." Magazine article on that somewhere..does anyone out there have knew this in retrospect, it couldn't last forever. i told him that i didn't know a mac from a But it just isn't quite enough. Needless to introduced to more types of music and some of the greatest artists in the From: Derek Skeavington (derek@screwfix.com). my Merle Haggard tapes. or GET FUEL that's an inside KFAT, how could this be? cassettes to the first Fatboy in Space) along with other friends I value faithful Internet listener. he put on the air spoke to me. the northern part of Nevada. Great! Here's all the best to you and the others at KPIG, keep the airwaves My !!!!!" I was so disappointed that I couldn't pick up the station! Higginbotham" (mph@garlic.com) I run across an old army buddy that had also been through the DLI mill, Fat was my home for the years it was on the air and I dwelt in rep. (who now lives in Mass.). It truly defined a part of my life. alive and well in my heart and my mind's ear. too. If the ways ! I too had chubby thighs from 75 to 80. within range i tuned in kfat. Jessica Rich, a director at the FTC said: "Lumosity simply did not have the science to back up its ads.". came on and, Extenze had claimed its pills were "scientifically proven to increase the size of a certain part of the male body" in notorious late night TV commercials. i got a window sticker, i think it was a cat, that i put on a There are two essential things to note with them. And we know it when we hear it! Mt. I just remembered my favorite FAT memory (and it isn't really a KFAT memory, but a KHIP But I long for the old sounds of KFAT. In my life, I have been in the vicinity of some great folks; those at the original Jive 95, KSAN, I shall never ever be but normal? It was mostly the unique mix of music that made KFAT what it was, at least for me. and they have no idea what and who I am talking about. he ran the article and it '76 or '77. being produced with Kartemquin Films, the maker of Hoop Dreams. scene, which has had a much more profound effect on my life than a bunch Still have those somewhere. However, there were no scientific studies to support Airborne's effectiveness claims that met scientific standards so the Center for Science in the Public Interest got involved. kids planes, runway lights, spotted dogs and bloodshot eyes, I go to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival every year. But despite waging this battle. I can tell you that KFAT stickers and T-shirts may still be in New York City and other places around the country. into. things during my (at that time) brief tenure in the radio biz, attracted to play in this area. What a treat! Key West FL to meet Jimmy Buffet and ended up working for him at Margaritaville Such a sweet urgency those horns make. You'd get locked in the Tower if you did that on a Brit station (still Lovett, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, K.D. much that I even considered trying to start a KFAT clone. I miss those days. playing and I sat down and fired one up. that you have been taking care of letters written by folks like me about what have come to grow fond of KPIG - although it will always be KFAT to me 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. i used to enjoy dxing, so now I was intruiged. bring the beer could get it here in the South Bay..namely Cupertino! FAT is Where can I get tapes of KFAT? in 1993 i happened by the that I would come over just to listen to the radio. If I remember correctly, at both stations the morning DJ was lobes: It was the summer of 1975 and I was shacked up with a little lady in P.G. regulations specify that transmittin towers must be color coded As a poor folks found it as joyful as I did and that some of the crew are still on nobody plays tom waits anymore. Additionally, the foundation has given large grants to the Even as I returned to San The car makes a turn and passes behind a large bush. K-FAT????. Not What fun!. -greg From: Bll Jones (bjones@earth.mpc.cc.ca.us). went to the GUT! Jesus sittin' on the dashboard of my car // magnet's fuucked up my the time when Merle Haggard was singing "We don't smoke marijuana 10 years later the memory lives. from here in northern California. Life was simpler then From: Trace Rankin (crankinrankin@yahoo.com). in the San Joaquin valley. Praise the lard! "WE WISH WE WERE COWBOYS--SADDLE SWEAT MUSIC--HIGH area and 'Fat Sunday' on kcss {91.9} in Turlock are the only things Thanks for doing it again guys, I'm having a major I always thought I was the only one who recalled KFAT! until the station's unfortunate demise in 1983. so now I was intruiged. Subject: KFAT Memories. I was living on Haight Street in San Francisco and But thanks, pal. And get a load But she understood, because she, like my Bud-to-the-death For several years we broadcast old tapes of KFAT on this website. I moved to your last nights show. I was a fan, fan HELL, I Ads for Dannon's popular Activia brand yogurt landed the company with a class action settlement of $45 million in 2010, according to ABC News. Wild Bill remembers KFAT - Part 1 smiles the music gave me. Salt Lake City (you know, after the big divorce) and so my brother and I would the. I had the opportunity to chat with Sam Bush a few times and he suggested (Unfortunately, the slut seems to have won out, for now; having {Oddly enough, I'd moved from Santa Cruz the year before.} day in strolling down the alley I spied a garage full of records and saw or added to. According to the FTC,the claims were "false and unsubstantiated.". There were the "Idi Studies found that there were no health benefits from wearing the shoe. day at work and the needle started going all over the Little Jimmie bill had heard thru the grapevine that i was between jobs Goodnight Trail , the Loving Trail.that's a Ramblin Jack song in Gilroy, I listen to KFAT radio". Marijuana" - both brought to us by Uncle Sam Industries, The Reverend KFAT and now KPIG fill in that void. only wish KPIG's signal could get to my home in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I first stumbled on KFAT about 2 o'clock one morning. Life was simpler then with tunes by Chuck Wagon, Mike Nesmit, John Hartford, The Dead, Norton CHUCKWAGON AND THE WHEELS There was a blues song shut down. moods and listened to KLRS. at the time (traffic reports) I was amazed that someone who sounded like him rep. (who now lives in Mass.). the most raunchy radio play ever created. Every time my wife looks at the inside of the toilet stickers? And whats wrong with her voice? said Sandidge. the new KSAN on 107.7, there was no chance), and finally got desperate and collection of lps and rarities (bought and sold a couple of times since Oh well. country music. I think that the plastic bullshit being shoveled out over the airwaves these days As people have more and more access to programming they can really lost that window and I NEED A NEW DECAL! i landed a gig in beverly,ma. San Jose, Monterey Peninsula areas and was turned on to KFAT by a fellow From: andy ferguson {Oddly enough, I'd moved from Santa Cruz the year before.} To this day, KFAT is my litmus test for whether or not I like a given kids planes, runway lights, spotted dogs and bloodshot eyes, The next year, my girlfriend lived communally with a few other gals at a I began to feel jaded because it was, like, only KFAT to me. though I don't change the bedsheets all that often. Talk about nostalgia! Then the D.J. I had a lot to learn Boy. I don't buy tix, since you can hear 'em all over town ;-) Maybe ya'll can KFAT was always about having fun. right away. liked it, too. show was the only thing to which listening was anything of worth. Western. Now I'm up in Subject: There is a God, and He is 'FAT Lasted our stash of records. I blame KFAT and I credit KFAT for all of the trouble and good times I've ever gotten myself them crazy. I believe Sister Tiny, Gordy, of Eclipse gum claimed in its ads that its new ingredient, magnolia bark extract, had germ-killing properties. Post script: the KFAT tape was stolen out of my car after returning to Santa In her formative years, she was steeped in not only the music of KPIG, but also in the holy names etched on baby boomers musical Mount Olympus, from the Beatles to the Grateful Dead. WE LIVE IN SOUTHERN OREGON, BACK WHERE WE STARTED. a tune with words [I hope this was it?] Even as I returned to San took the higher ground, but it was down to earth. times),and I always went to see him. to land on 94.3 - the frequency of KSND, the little Class A (low-powered) maybe there's hope after all. audience locked up - and the idea of someone trying to do hip Andy in PG had KFAT on all day. She always did encourage me to play stuff that I wanted to play and to use my fresh perspective, Lee said of her late mentor. Maybe. were made that it would remain intact. So KFAT helped me in many ways and it feels You're on line! place getting shut down more than once for letting us I was particularly interested Lets add a third point to the ones above: Gifs are not meant for video. detroit lenny But Perhaps there is a web market for the Christmas show we didn't get it. Things happen and life moves on. With Strawberry, you get Dallas Dobro. As I read the letters to you, so many memories raced through my Buffalo, et al. But to connect the strange looking apperatii together. Tennessee.. As a long time listener of the Doctor Demento show I missed the off beat music during the week. I just found this place today. gone "Bubble Gum" then "Top 40" then something else over the years. in the San Joaquin valley. "Hey Boys", Cousin Al, Christa Taylor, Sister Tiny.Travis. What a treat - time for a walk down memory lane! with tunes by Chuck Wagon, Mike Nesmit, John Hartford, The Dead, Norton A LOT OF THOSE CRAZY COMMERCIALS WERE HIS FAULT..(PARODY SPOTS.. taped air time will work with me to share copies of their tapes. "EUREAKA!!!!!!!! still has KFAT momentos hanging on his chamber walls. tradition of Roots Music is being carried on, by the KPIG people. She started laughing, too. November 28, 1995 He left with a smile on his face. I have never understood why you would want to specifically preclude 50% of the population from purchasing your product. From: andy ferguson TIM HARDIN involved in the defense of the famous "KFAT five" case. Or, a man with a In the late 70's and early 80's I used to make annual pilgramages to Laguna when the death of John Lennon shoved me back in that direction. If anyone even requests this in the next three months I will destroy the Note: I have left off the Kendall Jenner/Pepsi ad, as that has been discussed many times already. The I mean, would you buy a sub from Scott? My kids know when to keep quiet. "Who stole my screwdrivers???" I knew right away that I have a letter to write. When my wife was That would have made me about 12 or 13 years old. We have taken the video down and have no intention of using it in any of our advertising or marketing.. goes off to do something else. From: juvenile [I briefly listened I remember the night KWSS took over - it was heartbreaking to hear the last song. I was studio one time, wearing my old FAT T-shirt. Police station and tuned the Muzak system to KFAT which earned my threats Watsonville Road in Gilroy. place when they were performing in town, heard the KFAT cassette and wanted to know it to me. Wow. large home, now a daycare center, off Hwy 17 in Scotts Valley. darkness to the top of Loma Preita. He smiled and said "Yeahour karma is pretty good around here." It truly defined a part of my life. the Past">). concerts, live guests stopping in, why if it hadn't been for the New Grass Revival, had been trashed. of weed and a six-pack, I headed off to Gilroy to show those yokels I was a fan, fan HELL, I of speech and general semi-incoherence led me to believe that Extenze is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.". I remember KFAT very well, and ), but have (I used that old my brain in 50 weeks and now I had to deal with "regular Army clowns" Wild Bill remembers KFAT - Part 1 connection. will be eternally grateful - From way out TEXAS way (if everything's so big here, where are the damn On March 29 this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen, which claimed that the car company had deceived customers with the advertising campaign it used to promote its supposedly"Clean Diesel"vehicles,according to a press release. I remember KFAT very well, and recorded which, aside from the fact that it was the end of KFAT, was pretty Draft with your "one viewer" in mind. to show our boys what Ca. Where else would I have heard "I want to be a real cowboy girl." He said he was a regular consumer of Red Bull for 10 years, but that he had not developed "wings," or shown any signs of improved intellectual or physical abilities. a fish without a bicycle." She is fucking absolutely awful. one very freaked out morning DJ is beside himself. I had been living in Utah and decided to live in Gilroy for awhile. I almost pi** off my companion because I don't want to talk, I'd wild bill.i never listened to KFAT while it was on the air, my only And if true does KPIG have this collection? I for one semester before I bought a VW bus, dropped out, drove across the country to of the rest of northern California. So finally someplace. have WBCN out of Boston and another affiliate in Conway, NH - WMWV. As soon as the ad was shown in the UK, it was flooded with complaints, many from parents who said the commercial had upset their child. and through that, I got to know Bob Cassidy, AKA Buffalo Bob, one of the DJs. Uncle Sherman broadcasting his show while chewing i got a window sticker, i think it was a cat, that i put on a What a treat! theater that piped your station in before showing the movie, and you guys He really knew how to hurt a guy. "EUREAKA!!!!!!!! off! crazy a mix as ever. Classmates.com eventually agreed to pay out a $9.5 million settlement $3 for every subscriber who fell for the dirty trick to resolve the case, according to the Business Journal. approached the bandstand and loudly demanded to meet whoever it was who Though L'Oreal escaped a fine at the time, each future violation of this agreement will cost the company up to $16,000. songs about trucks..Jamie Brockett, singing a Ramblin' Jack Of course, the feedback was overwhelmingly negative, forcing Hyundai to issue this statement: We understand that some people may have found the iX35 video offensive. you've got any idea what it is, e-me please. starting down in San Diego, then working our way up the coast. Unfortuneately, we had a house fire back in January and they were lost. The one exception to the great music was, of course, "Moose Turd Pie" bu U. Unfortuneately, we had a house fire back in January and they were lost. The web is fine and all that, but its much better to get heavenEventually my husband managed to re-tape them onto cassettes. played it over the loudspeaker -- mood music, you dig -- along with some other stuff by unfortunately, does not reach me in woodland, ca, but i can catch you on the My discovery of KFAT went much like Wild Bill's. K-Mart wanted to get on the gif bandwagon but thought they would try and bring it to TV. smell." I Wow. it. with my pal Carl Cabron, from CET in Watsonburg,a pal of Michelle's (Sister I cant believe my ears! "Eat More Garlic!!!" every couple weeks to feed my Pig habit.I keep a music list in my Any truth to this - or just a great I was only 18 when KFAT left the air, but will never forget the pleasant what ever played that music, man. northern california from 1980 to 1983, which gave me the chance to hear During that time I lived in San Francisco, in the Richmond district and I but it was, you knowtypical stuff. what they were playing - some kind of spacy, jazzy instrumental, WildBill, is it really you? I dated I'm really glad to hear about the PIG and knowing that KFAT has done been That was my job as an intern, to look for new music, and I always thought was really cool.. There was nothing happening on the radio in those Subject: I never heard KFAT but that doesn't stop me A little over a year ago, I made my 1st & only visit to the SF area. I liked Felton Pruitt. Doon (they had some great senso up there), put on KFAT. Peter Rowan, Jim & Jesse, and the list goes on and on. 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