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Title: Bill Pearl - he's still with us.
Post by: funk51 on July 08, 2017, 11:03:11 AM
 :D bill pearl born in 1930 is still alive.
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Post by: NarcissisticDeity on July 08, 2017, 11:09:57 AM
They don't make em like Bill anymore
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Post by: funk51 on July 08, 2017, 11:11:26 AM
They don't make em like Bill anymore
for sure
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Post by: Nirvana on July 08, 2017, 12:11:05 PM
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=633471.0;attach=734280;image)

Vince Goodrum, Vince Basile, Groink, and some black guy. Lot's of blue stars in that pic.
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Post by: Fortress on July 08, 2017, 12:20:59 PM
Pearl is possibly my very favourite personality in all of bodybuilding/weight training culture.

A fine, fine man.
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Post by: DroppingPlates on July 08, 2017, 12:50:51 PM
Someone should do an interview with him
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Post by: Shizzo on July 08, 2017, 12:54:01 PM
Someone should do an interview with him
I think he has earned a pearl necklace at this point.
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Post by: Irongrip400 on July 08, 2017, 02:06:02 PM
Was it 71 universe where he won and everybody chickened out on goin against him? He was 41 and weighed 242 pounds. Along with Larry Scott, one of my favorites.
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Post by: jude2 on July 08, 2017, 04:00:09 PM
He had a powerful physique.
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Post by: oldtimer1 on July 08, 2017, 07:47:37 PM
His biography is really interesting. It's named, "Beyond the Universe".  On of the few guys to make serious money out the game. Pearl's life is so interesting. From being in the Military. Playing in a band. Being a wrestler and restoring antique cars were a few of his interests. I bet he has well over a million in antiques.
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Post by: hardgainerj on July 08, 2017, 07:51:59 PM
all vegetables and green tea
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Post by: NarcissisticDeity on July 08, 2017, 08:14:36 PM
 :)
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Post by: Palumboism on July 08, 2017, 08:18:40 PM
Bill Pearl & Drave Draper give their views on modern bodybuilding.

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Post by: NarcissisticDeity on July 08, 2017, 08:20:23 PM
3 legends
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Post by: funk51 on July 09, 2017, 07:11:45 AM
His biography is really interesting. It's named, "Beyond the Universe".  On of the few guys to make serious money out the game. Pearl's life is so interesting. From being in the Military. Playing in a band. Being a wrestler and restoring antique cars were a few of his interests. I bet he has well over a million in antiques.
;D
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Post by: MAXX on July 09, 2017, 07:36:15 AM
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=633471.0;attach=734280;image)

Vince Goodrum, Vince Basile, Groink, and some black guy. Lot's of blue stars in that pic.
chuckled  ;D
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Post by: NarcissisticDeity on July 09, 2017, 07:39:09 AM
 :)
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Post by: NarcissisticDeity on July 09, 2017, 07:55:32 AM
 :)
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Post by: tom joad on July 09, 2017, 07:55:45 AM
When I started lifting in the '80s, the first bodybuilding book that I bought was Bill Pearl's "Getting Stronger."
(Arnold's Encyclopedia is the only other bodybuilding book that I have.)
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Post by: NarcissisticDeity on July 09, 2017, 08:10:09 AM
 :)
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Post by: NarcissisticDeity on July 09, 2017, 08:12:35 AM
 :)
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Post by: The Scott on July 09, 2017, 08:34:33 AM
He lives up in the Medford, Oregon area.  My older brother sees him sometimes but I haven't been lucky enough to when I visit.  With regard to that video where they talk about today's bodybuilding, I agree with Draper and Pearl.
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Post by: funk51 on July 09, 2017, 11:01:35 AM
 :D
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Post by: DroppingPlates on July 09, 2017, 11:44:05 AM
I'm pretty sure that he still has a great set of arms
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Post by: Ronnie Rep on July 09, 2017, 04:12:10 PM
3 legends
Amen
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Post by: BEEFYHEAVYWEIGHT on July 09, 2017, 04:27:27 PM
Only tried steroids once. For 6 weeks he took 2 Nilevar he states in his book. Got too bloated and sick so he stopped. LMFAO.....but still a legend and great man.
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Post by: Van_Bilderass on July 09, 2017, 04:43:20 PM
What was the connection between him and Sri Shinmoy?
Didn't he promote that huckster?
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Post by: BB on July 09, 2017, 05:14:27 PM
What was the connection between him and Sri Shinmoy?
Didn't he promote that huckster?

Vouched for him when he was doing his strongman stunts. Later Pearl waffled a little, but..... :shrug:.

.

(http://www.srichinmoy-reflections.com/sites/default/files/articles/weightlifting/jan_30_87_7000lb_medium.jpg).
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Post by: BB on July 09, 2017, 06:04:50 PM
This is interesting, it basically chronicles Sri Chinmoy's journey into lifting  -

.

He got Pearl, Wayne Demilla, Zane, Katz, Carl Lewis, Hugo Girard, Frantz, Dan Lurie, Al Oerter, etc.... all to vouch for him.

Bill Pearl for his part says that since Chimnoy isn't competing in a sport with established rules like OL, Powerlifting, Bodybuilding, etc..... but rather under his own thing the lifts count. He also goes on about how the message is more important than the lifts.

Also it's fun to watch him set up the lifts. Sometimes it's a side press, others a push. Then other times, just breaking the weights off the hooks count, and when it got really heavy, rolling the dumbbell handle in the holder seemed to count.
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Post by: funk51 on July 10, 2017, 11:07:13 AM
What was the connection between him and Sri Shinmoy?
Didn't he promote that huckster?
  ::) ::) ::) ::)          that's the only knock on bill pretending that sri was actually doing something otherworldly that and the insane movie he made with nautilus art jones. nice dan lurie plates though.
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Post by: Kwon on July 10, 2017, 11:29:20 AM
(http://ist1-4.filesor.com/pimpandhost.com/5/7/1/0/57100/D/B/O/R/DBOR/4684099774_393e6c142b_b.jpg)
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Post by: Irongrip400 on July 10, 2017, 06:11:34 PM
:)

Bottom pic, he has a horizontal crease across his stomach as did a lot of guys back then. Was this a byproduct of sucking in the stomach for pictures, because they weren't super lean?
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Post by: bigbychoices on July 14, 2017, 10:38:51 AM
bill is a nice guy BUT he has to stop his lying about being natural and not doing roids other than that nilevar once or twice. lol. he was juicing just like the rest of them. thats why he went vegetarian cuz his cholesterolwas high and thought it was the meat.lol . didnt know roids raise cholesterol back then.
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Post by: Powerlift66 on July 14, 2017, 10:40:27 AM
Only tried steroids once. For 6 weeks he took 2 Nilevar he states in his book. Got too bloated and sick so he stopped. LMFAO.....but still a legend and great man.

That's a bunch of BS, he did much more like everyone else. BUT, he is a great man...
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Post by: Natural_O on July 14, 2017, 05:23:12 PM
Someone should do an interview with him

I did a short interview with him in 2011 when I gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award at one of my contests in Chicago -
http://www.rxmuscle.com/video/lifestyles-events/3951-bill-pearl-receiving-lifetime-achievement-award-from-natural-mr-universe-john-hansen.html
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Post by: oldtimer1 on July 14, 2017, 05:42:52 PM
Pearl is possibly my very favourite personality in all of bodybuilding/weight training culture.

A fine, fine man.

I agree. He has lived and incredible life and his training knowledge is through the roof. He doesn't need some exercise physiology Phd. He knows from empirical knowledge all the answers.
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Post by: Da Freak on July 14, 2017, 05:49:10 PM
Pearl is what got me into bodybuilding. What an immense physique! Legend.
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Post by: Coach is Back! on July 14, 2017, 06:21:45 PM
:)

Great picture with one of my old training partners from the Pearls gym days and still good friend, Doug Brignole.
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Post by: DroppingPlates on July 14, 2017, 09:11:37 PM
I did a short interview with him in 2011 when I gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award at one of my contests in Chicago -
http://www.rxmuscle.com/video/lifestyles-events/3951-bill-pearl-receiving-lifetime-achievement-award-from-natural-mr-universe-john-hansen.html

Thank you John. Unfortunately the video in your link wasn't working, but I've found another video about his earlier award, and I assume it was you who did the voice-over?

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Post by: funk51 on July 15, 2017, 06:07:36 AM
back in 66 on mti.
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Post by: Natural_O on July 15, 2017, 06:13:11 AM
Thank you John. Unfortunately the video in your link wasn't working, but I've found another video about his earlier award, and I assume it was you who did the voice-over?



No, that wasn't me. The video link I posted works on my computer but not on my phone for some reason. Unfortunately, RX didn't put it on YouTube back then so I can't
copy the link from there.