Davie Allan & The Arrows ‎– Shape Of Things To Come

Label:

Total Energy ‎– NER3020

Format:

Vinyl, 7"

Released:

1998

"Shape of Things to Come" was featured on the 1998 4-CD box set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968. The version on Nuggets is by "Max Frost & The Troopers" which is believed to have actually been a band called The 13th Power. The vocal was definitely by The 13th Power's vocalist Paul Wibier. There were rumors that the Arrows were Max Frost & The Troopers, but Davie's version is an instrumental that replaces Paul Wibier's vocal with his own guitar on the 13th Power's track. Davie's "Blue's Theme" is on Nuggets, though…. 

The deadwax on the single says "Never Mind Max Frost & The Troopers / Smash The Thirteenth Power".

Max Frost and the Troopers were a fictional rock music group created for the exploitation film Wild in the Streets, released in 1968. The film featured Christopher Jones as the highly influential singer Max Frost. The songs performed by Frost and his band, a group that was never formally named in the film, were credited to Max Frost and the Troopers in the subsequent singles and album. The band name "Troopers" is based on the term "troops," the designation Frost used in the film to refer to his friends and followers. A studio group appeared on the soundtrack album for the film, along with incidental music penned by Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann and composed by Les Baxter; however, the songs were not originally credited to Max Frost and the Troopers, but rather to The 13th Power. Owing to the success of the song "Shape of Things to Come" as a single, an accompanying album by "Max Frost and The Troopers", Shape of Things to Come, was issued on the Tower record label in 1968. Musicians playing on the album were at first believed to include members of Davie Allan and The Arrows (who also released the "Shapes of Things to Come" without lyrics) with lead vocals by Paul Wibier (who also wrote a majority of the songs on the album), however, it is now thought that the album was actually the work of Wibier's own group, the 13th Power, who had previously recorded for Curb under the name The Moms. 

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