Brute Force

Brute Force, blessed Stephen Friedland in Shirt Town, NJ in 1940, was initially attracted to the stage at age eight following watching his mom act in various plays on the Shirt Town Jewish Community Middle Theatre. Friedland continuing to hone his efficiency skills throughout senior high school both on-stage and off, regularly improvising tunes and sketches at celebrations or in the home around the piano. In the first ’60s he fulfilled Billy Gussak, a studio room drummer who experienced played with Expenses Haley & the Comets, and started collaborating using the seasoned musician — and dad of his current sweetheart — on tunes. One particular songs, “My Teenage Castle,” finished up as the B-side of Peggy March’s 1963 “I Want I Had been a Princess” solitary. His achievement at RCA ultimately led him to another stage of his profession, playing keyboards and acoustic guitar for the Tokens. Throughout that period he composed tunes for Del Shannon, the Creation, the Cyrkle, as well as the Chiffons — the second option scored a strike with “No one Has learned What’s Goin’ on in my own Brain But Me.” He remaining the Tokens in 1967 and documented the heavily organized and deeply absurd I, Brute Pressure: Confessions of Like for Columbia Information. Described by Brute as “a paradigm to be far before its period”, the record quickly sank below both critic’s as well as the public’s radar. Rather than wallowing, Brute required to the ocean, getting involved in an expedition with closest friend Ben Schlossberg to swim the complete Bering Strait — the “Chilly Battle” stunt was targeted at drawing focus on “the closeness from the Eastern and Traditional western hemispheres,” and was presented in Life publication. 1969 saw the discharge of Brute’s most remarkable single, “The Ruler of Fuh” — the joke becoming that this protagonist was known as “the Fuh Ruler.” The monitor was championed by George Harrison and released as an individual around the Beatles’ Apple label. That same season he released Extemporaneous. Documented reside in the studio room in 1969 with reduced piano accompaniment before a little audience, it had been made up generally of comedy music, politics jabs, and absurd improvisations, and provides since turn into a sought-after slab of vinyl fabric — it had been reissued with many bonus monitors by Rev-Ola in 2004. Brute Power continued to execute his nontraditional musical/comedy variety action through the entire ’80s, ’90s, and in to the millennium.