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Title: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: suckmymuscle on December 10, 2010, 01:03:18 PM
  William Phillips, AKA Bill Philips, had this magazine in the 1990's called MuscleMedia where he used it essentially to promote the supplements from his company EAS. Whatever happened to that guy? He had that "Supplement Review" book where he trashed all supplement companies except his own of course. He went into fitness because there was more money to be made there, but his company seem to have disappeared. Did he go broke? Where is he? He had some funny shit to say espicially about the pros. I remember that the guys from FLEX, like Julian Schmidt and that guy Jim Schmaltz hated his guts.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: tu_holmes on December 10, 2010, 01:04:31 PM
Wikipedia is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Phillips_(author)
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: hazbin on December 10, 2010, 01:06:28 PM
he started out as nathanial phillips and wrote a steroid how to book. his brother shawn used to write articles for him under the name brad jeffries.
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: kiwiol on December 10, 2010, 01:09:14 PM
He was pretty loaded, wasn't he? His "Body for Life" campaign was a huge success in many countries.

Also liked EAS Whey protein - great taste. Not sure if it's still around.
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: tu_holmes on December 10, 2010, 01:09:50 PM
He was pretty loaded, wasn't he? His "Body for Life" campaign was a huge success in many countries.

Also liked his EAS Whey protein - great taste. Not sure if it's still around.

He sold the company so he's loaded... He lives on a beach in Hawaii last I read and just does whatever he wants.
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: Van_Bilderass on December 10, 2010, 01:10:13 PM
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Guy was a steroid dealer who tried going legit and succeeded extremely well. Same basic story as so many other bodybuilding/fitness supplement companies we see. This is a popular formula.
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: Stavios on December 10, 2010, 01:12:19 PM
it ain't marketing, it's all drugs
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: kiwiol on December 10, 2010, 01:13:41 PM
He sold the company so he's loaded... He lives on a beach in Hawaii last I read and just does whatever he wants.

I see. I thought he came from a wealthy family in the first place.

Is EAS still around?
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: StickStickly on December 10, 2010, 01:15:00 PM
it ain't marketing, it's all drugs
I always wanted a tshirt that said it ain't just genetics on the front, and then on the back it would say ITS ALL DRUGZ in big white letters hahahaha. Of course with american society i don't think i could wear that without having people judge me negatively
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: suckmymuscle on December 10, 2010, 01:17:17 PM
Wikipedia is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Phillips_(author)

  I wouldn't have guessed that a nobody like him would have a Wikipeda page.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: Stavios on December 10, 2010, 01:19:18 PM
I always wanted a tshirt that said it ain't just genetics on the front, and then on the back it would say ITS ALL DRUGZ in big white letters hahahaha. Of course with american society i don't think i could wear that without having people judge me negatively

hahaha Adonis created one like that on cafee press I think a while ago

 ;D
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: tu_holmes on December 10, 2010, 01:20:54 PM
I see. I thought he came from a wealthy family in the first place.

Is EAS still around?

Yes it is... He doesn't own it anymore, but they sell product still.
hahaha Adonis created one like that on cafee press I think a while ago

 ;D

Someone stole Adonis' photoshop and sold it.

I have one.
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: che on December 10, 2010, 01:34:08 PM


Also liked EAS Whey protein - great taste. Not sure if it's still around.

Yep  $29 for a 5lbs bag  at Sam's club
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: Master Blaster on December 10, 2010, 02:05:05 PM
before he was "Bill" Phillips he was Nathaniel Phillips, well known drug whore and self proclaimed steroid guru

(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/92/31/8eab224128a016b7ffee8010.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: suckmymuscle on December 10, 2010, 02:07:27 PM
before he was "Bill" Phillips he was Nathaniel Phillips, well known drug whore and self proclaimed steroid guru

(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/92/31/8eab224128a016b7ffee8010.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

  So we now know who GH15 is...

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: Master Blaster on December 10, 2010, 02:12:47 PM
looks like he's had some work done on his face.  :-\

(http://www.iamlala.com/entry_images/lala-vazquez-bill-phillips.jpg)

(http://www.tomterwilliger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/bill-philips.jpg)
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: johnnynoname on December 10, 2010, 02:21:24 PM
MM2K was such a awesome magazine.......


....then, after a few years it became really bourgeois
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 10, 2010, 02:22:17 PM
MM2K was such a awesome magazine.......


....then, it became so bourgeois

no, you're bourgeois.....
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: johnnynoname on December 10, 2010, 02:22:37 PM
no, you're bourgeois.....

pw3nd
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: Army of One on December 10, 2010, 02:32:25 PM
Id like to know too, hold on was a good song.
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: Master Blaster on December 10, 2010, 02:32:45 PM
MM2K was such a awesome magazine.......


....then, it became so bourgeois

It was the first magazine to have entire articles about drugs. Dan Duchaine used to write for them.
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: johnnynoname on December 10, 2010, 02:42:26 PM
Id like to know too, hold on was a good song.

this thing you did right here.........I see what you did
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: BB on December 10, 2010, 03:49:42 PM
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Guy was a steroid dealer who tried going legit and succeeded extremely well. Same basic story as so many other bodybuilding/fitness supplement companies we see. This is a popular formula.

Maybe,the rap on him was alledgely that he got connected as an "advisor" to popular athletes and had some success there. Pat Arnold once told a story about him boosting a certain famous Lion of a bodybuilder's drug stash and had to leave Venice for many years. Not sure how true it is, but lots of oldtime guys on Misc.weights.fitness swore to it.

Later, he hooked up with the Met-rx guys and then broke to form EAS.  This isn't so much of a local guy makes good story, as the family was already well off and had a piece of it too. His dad was a high end lawyer, who was said to of helped him out some.

Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: ~UN_$ung~ on December 10, 2010, 04:47:43 PM
MM2K was such a awesome magazine.......


....then, after a few years it became really bourgeois


it was fucking amazing, dan duchaine wrote for it,.........awesome steroid knowledge

then i remember i feell out of BB for a year or so with a drug addiction, then when i pick it back up..............it was just a magazine full of muscle tech "4 page ad reports" disguised as articles


like it just changed over night, they were trying to trick people..........i think happened when she sold it though
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: jeremyj on December 10, 2010, 04:59:27 PM
He has Bob Chick hair. ;)
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: biff on December 10, 2010, 05:04:20 PM
some say this cover signaled the beginning of the end
(http://www.tmuscle.com/img/photos/06-046-feature/image005.png)
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: wes on December 10, 2010, 05:08:26 PM
I thought he authored "The Underground Steroid Handbook" back in the day ???
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: johnnynoname on December 10, 2010, 05:08:55 PM

it was fucking amazing, dan duchaine wrote for it,.........awesome steroid knowledge

then i remember i feell out of BB for a year or so with a drug addiction, then when i pick it back up..............it was just a magazine full of muscle tech "4 page ad reports" disguised as articles


like it just changed over night, they were trying to trick people..........i think happened when she sold it though

it was sad because it was hardcore and intelligent at the same time then after a while it became too "Exercise Ball"-y

It's like, I think Charles Poliquin is a smart guy but his stuff is a bit too....i don't know,...it tries to be too much of a mix of shit that is "clinical" and German Volume training as well.

Plus, they became way too much about the "white collar" lifter or anyone else who would pay 99.99 for Betagen

Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: BB on December 10, 2010, 05:21:21 PM
some say this cover signaled the beginning of the end
(http://www.tmuscle.com/img/photos/06-046-feature/image005.png)


Yeah, the Gold Finger issue was the point when even the fans went "WTF?".
 
Wes, USH was Duchaine. Phillips had his own book shown earlier in the thread, and use to mention "WAR" quite a bit.

 
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: wes on December 10, 2010, 06:15:25 PM
Thanks BB,much appreciated.
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: Wiggs on December 10, 2010, 06:51:25 PM
before he was "Bill" Phillips he was Nathaniel Phillips, well known drug whore and self proclaimed steroid guru

(http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/92/31/8eab224128a016b7ffee8010.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg)

this was my first steroid book back in 97.... :'(
my world was changed after this...so much for the weider principles :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Whatever Happened To William Phillips?
Post by: Master Blaster on December 10, 2010, 07:15:22 PM
this was my first steroid book back in 97.... :'(
my world was changed after this...so much for the weider principles :'( :'( :'(

I loved that book! I thought it made me a steroid guru, when I was younger.  ::)