Max Frost & The Troopers
Max Frost & The Troopers
Top Songs
| 1 | Shape Of Things To Come | ||
| 2 | Fourteen Or Fight | ||
| 3 | A Change Is Gonna Come | ||
| 4 | She Lied | ||
| 5 | Let Your Mind Run Free |
Albums
Jul 1968 • 10 songs
Jul 1968 • 1 song
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Biography
Max Frost And The Troopers were a fictional group created for the 1968 hippie-exploitation movie, Wild In The Streets. Frost was actor Christopher Jones (more interestingly, the Troopers' drummer was a young Richard Pryor). Their role in the film was to gain voting rights for 14-year-olds. Frost is elected president of the USA at the movie's climax, and he orders everyone over 30 into concentration camps, where they are forced to take LSD. His band's songs were equally absurd semi-political rants (‘14 Or Fight') save for one bona fide folk-punk classic, ‘Shape Of Things To Com...