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vince
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No, I did not know him, but I always wonder what happened to all of those guys. There were so many teens around that time, there was this kid I competed against once Caesar Juliani (Muscular Development cover Aug 81) unreal potential unfortunately he was murdered I think in 81. There were two brothers Steve and Gus Gialeis fantastic physiques, and another comes to mind Bob Caston he won the 80 teen Mr. Conn, this kid had super potential tall thick, huge arms great lines never did much but he could have gone places. Maybe you could do an article on those days what happened to these kids, I don’t know if there’s a big enough audience for something like that. Well I tell you its been nice strolling down memory lane with you keep in touch and I can’t wait to read your next article.
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moorets
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Vince, thanks for your eloquent defense of my attempts at fiction. As I cannot improve on what you wrote, here is another story specially crafted for the 2 non-fans: Jeff King fell asleep while watching the DeMille epic Samson & Delilah on TV and when he awoke, he was chained to a large chariot with additional heavy chains and ropes wrapped around his upper body. King flexed his massive pecs and the chains and ropes disintegrated! Then, he overturned the chariot (with his right index finger!!), creating confusion in the ranks of the Philistine army. Then, he pushed over a huge tree which came crashing down, flattening dozens of men. As in the movie, Mr. Universe reached down and picked up a cal cified jawbone of an ass. Wielding this terrible weapon, he began to smash the
bronze helmets of the soldiers. First dozens, and then hundreds fell and as King advanced, he left behind heaps of dead and dying. The unequal battle continued until the once mighty Philistine army no longer existed. One crazed survivor jumped on a horse and fled. King picked up an abandoned spear and waited until the soldier was about 15 miles away. King hurled the spear and the last thing the fugitive heard was a thunderous crack as the spear reached Mach 3! It passed through the guy, continued on for 212 miles and landed in the Red Sea. King awoke and saw that everything was the same. Relieved, he fell asleep. But at the same time, an American salvage diver has just found a rusty Philistine spear at the bottom of the Red Sea....
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Joseph
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Vince,
The East Coast bodybuilding scene of the early eighties was amazingly filled with powerful physiques. I remember seeing Rich Gaspari competing in a small Jersey High School, with Joe Meeko signing photo's in the hallway. Then at another school I saw Mike Antorino and Todd King, and also sat with Billy Smith on the steps of a school in Bloomfield waiting to unveil his 255 lb. 19 year old body to the crowd of the Mr. Colonial America. Remember the Conzo brothers? There was a common thread in many of their lives...Bob Gruskin. He shot pictures of me at my first contest win, but I left for college right after. It seems to me from observation, that whoever Gruskin mentored, they got huge and totally cut. I trained once with Antorino. What lines he had!
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yendor1152
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I think that it is about time I head up to Oxnard. Actually ,I am heading up to Santa Barbara on monday. Oxnard is on the way. I think I am going to have to stop in to visit Balik. Havent seen him since the Zabo-Muscle Beach tribute. I'm gonna ask him why he hasnt printed this long awaited Jeff King interview. It looks to be going on 2 years already. By time Ironman prints it, we will be ready for a new Jeff interview with new pics and stories as to what Jeff has been up too since the last interview. Maybe Ironman is just waiting until Jeffs 25th anniversary of retirement. I dont want to wait until after 2010 to see this interview. I am curious to see what Baliks reason for this is. I will post back next week after I speak with him.
For your information, Iron Man hasn't had the Jeff King interview for two years. Perhaps if you'd bothered to ask the WRITER (which is me, by the way), you'd know why it's taken so long to get the interview to Iron Man and Steve Holman, the editor. Here's the history: first, I decided to contact Jeff to do a Legends interview (this was in 2003). I'd interviewed him twice before, in 1985 and 89, but had lost touch with him. Nobody seemed to have any contact info. Then, quite by accident, I was chatting with Nick LaViltola and mentioned that I was trying to find Jeff. He had Jeff's number, so I quickly gave Jeff a call, we rekindled old ties and began the interview. The interview was completed and sent off to Jeff for his edits and approval. That's where the sticking point happened. The interview ended up staying with him until December of 2007! Once we reconnected again, the interview was on the fast track. But then it grew into two parts, and Jeff was meticulous about what he wanted said and didn't want said. So, it went through many, many edits before finally reaching a conclusion in the summer. The final polish was applied at the end of August, and it reached Iron Man on September 1, 2008. So, to clarify, neither John Balik or the editor has been "sitting" on this interview. Not every writing piece goes smoothly. What counts is the end product, and I can honestly tell you that it'll blow your mind. Rod |
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yendor1152
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Well, Tom, we've all been waiting with baited breath to find out about your discussion with John Balik. Since you've been posting regularly in the forum right up until today, why no report on you and Balik? Weren't you going to see him on Monday? It's almost Wednesday, now...
Rod
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yendor1152
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Gee, guess Tom didn't get a chance to kibitz with John Balik, after all. Considering he was so hot to find out "exactly" what happened to the Jeff King Iron Man interview, I'd think he'd rush back here to inform the ill-informed. Strangely, he's been posting on the forum and hasn't bothered to relate his excursion to the Iron Man offices.
Hmm...is that a bag of hot air I hear deflating?
Rod 
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John Lassen
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That youtube clip is awesome,not only because I have competed on the same stage that jeff king guest posed at but the choice of music is my brothers band.Pick up the new Journey cd at walmart and you will note under thank you it states the Lassen family,anyway Jeff King was awesome.
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moorets
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Jeff King, The World's Most Perfect Man (in every way!!), not satisfied with developing his mind as well as his body to total perfection, surfed the web looking for
possible challenges. He ran across a web site devoted to West Coast giant Victor and though annoyed by the bad grammar and spelling in the report on Victor's
feats of strength, he was impressed by the claims and wondered if he could equal or surpass them. Jeff King fell asleep and when he awoke he was wearing his
blue posing trunks along with massive wrestling boots and heavy gloves. To his utter surprise he was standing in the middle of a railroad track. Laying between the rails
on either side of King were two massive chains 18 inches in diameter weighing 150 tons each! King picked up the chains easily and looked down the tracks to see
4 diesel locomotives coupled together with one of the chains attached to the rear of the engine closest to him and looked the other way and saw the exact same set up
on his other side. King braced himself as the locomotives moved slowly away from him until the chains were taut and vibrating, and then they stopped. The young
superman signaled he was ready for the challenge and the 8 engineers turned their controls to full power. Sparks from the wheels flew everywhere but the diesels
failed to gain any momentum! In fact, the 8 engines could not even manage to move a single inch!! Held firmly in place for move than five minutes, it was clear
to all that King had won. But the mighty man was not satisfied with this improbable feat. King flexed mightily and his giant arms and pectorals swelled to impossible
size! As King poured on the power, he pulled back all 8 engines towards himself. As he did so, the pressure on the machines built by mere mortals began to break them
down. Engines over heated and burned out while broken wheels fell off the locomotives. As King's fists met, he stood between 8 burning wrecks!! When Jeff King
woke up, he laughed at the dream and then looked out a window to see huge plumes of smoke coming from the local rail yard.
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moorets
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Nothing on Jeff in the Feb. issue of Iron Man and also nothing in their list for the topics in the March
issue. What I don"t understand is why they ran an interview (admittedly a good one) with Doug
Brignole who was wiped out by Jeff at the 83 America while keeping Jeff's interview in limbo. The editors of Iron Man apparently do not know that there are two types of men in the world. Type one is Jeff King and type 2 is all the others!
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jstone6507
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A guy I work out with in Milford used to train with Jeff at Big Daddy's in Springfield. We was also friendly with Moe and Rich Roy as well as others as part of that gang. He has more real life stories than can ever be printed in any muscle mag.
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moorets
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Att: all Jeff King fans ! Go to the website FINAL COMBAT and vote for Jeff in a series of battles to determine the best bodybuilder. There is a unique scoring system with which you can use to increase King's margins of victories, break some ties, and help him come behind in a few of a large number of battles currently under way. The most
notable result is King has a sizable (and growing) lead over Lee Haney! All we need is about a dozen or so fans to take the time to vote against King's opponents in
order to give Jeff sweeping wins over all of his adversaries! VOTE FOR JEFF!!!
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moorets
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Mr. Universe vs Terminator 1: Jeff King stepped out of the back door of an old down town movie theatre in Los Angeles after posing before 1,000 screaming fans.
A sudden flash of light in the alley was followed by the appearance of a colossal muscleman of superhuman size! As King stared in disbelief, the giant advanced towards him and demanded his clothes. King laughed and started to walk away, but the giant moved in to strike him. King blocked the blow with his hand and then felt what
appeared to be metal under the skin. King flexed and crushed the metal hand! The creature howled in pain as King wrapped his arms around him and flexed mightily!
The unbelievable power of King bent the cyborg in half. Then King used his powerful hands to compress the once awesome machine into a small block of metal and synthetic skin. King hurled the remnants of the Terminator with such force that it was still climbing when it passed over Catalina Island and then fell into the Pacific about
350 miles off the California coast. King went back into the theatre to sign autographs while the cyborgs at Skynet were astonished at the destruction of T1. Then they looked down to see themselves slowly disappearing as King's heroic act changed the future and destroyed their dream of a world without mankind. (Lierary influences on
these tales are William Gaines, H.P. Lovecraft, Stan Lee, and Edgar Cayce.)
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moorets
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Mr. America vs. the Wolfman: In preparation for going to the new wolfman movie, Jeff King is watching the 1941 classic with Lon Chaney, Jr. King falls asleep and, to his
astonishment he's standing in a street in a fog enshrouded English town circa 1865. King hears roars and screams and prepares to dash to the rescue. The landlord of
the local pub suggests he seek shelter or else the local mortician will have to prepare a coffin for him. King laughs and says make it extra large. Then the young superman
races to help, achieving 110 mph just before he arrives. The wolfman tosses aside a shredded victim and heads for a young lady. As King tells her to head for shelter in
the town, the monster rakes his paws across King 's huge chest but as his nails break against invulnerable muscle, the beast howls in pain and fury. King moves behind
the wolfman, wraps his mighty arms around it and flexes with superhuman power! Once it is manifestly dead, King picks up the 500 lb. beast and tosses it into a
near by wagon. A few locals arrive to carry off the trophy while King accepts the landlord's offer of a room for the night. When King wakes up and goes down the stairs,
he sees more than a dozen men struggling to place a plaque with the mounted wolfman (the local mortician doubles as a taxidermist). King picks the plaque with one
hand, places it against a wall, and with his other hand drives nails into the heavy wood with the greatest of ease! Of those watching, 12 women and 2 men faint at the sight of the
huge muscleman in action! King walks outside and he's standing in front of his home in Greenfield MA. King looks down and wonders why his Big Daddy's Gym t-shirt is in
tatters....
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