In the early years before the beards, the maharishi, Sgt. Pepper's, and swearing off their pandemonium-filled live shows (who could blame them?), the Beatles were probably the closest thing to a punk band back then.
Sporting motorcycle jackets and rockabilly hair, John, Paul, George and Ringo were a ferocious bar act who famously honed their chops in Hamburg with all-night beer-fuelled gigs that often broke the eight-hour mark.
It's this chapter in the Beatles story that most interests St. Catharines musician and writer Dave Tufford.
"Everything was faster and much more raw," Tufford says of the early Fab Four. "I think they really were, of their era, the equivalent of punk."
Sporting motorcycle jackets and rockabilly hair, John, Paul, George and Ringo were a ferocious bar act who famously honed their chops in Hamburg with all-night beer-fuelled gigs that often broke the eight-hour mark.
It's this chapter in the Beatles story that most interests St. Catharines musician and writer Dave Tufford.
"Everything was faster and much more raw," Tufford says of the early Fab Four. "I think they really were, of their era, the equivalent of punk."
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