"Gear"

[TheRocker]

I've been watching a whole bunch of Beatles footage and I notice they say "Gear" a lot, to them was that like how we use "Awesome"?

[ArothmanMusic]

Yep. "Gear" was popular Liverpool teenager slang in the 50s and the Beatles said it a lot (and "fab" also). I think it started out as a slang for "the stuff", as in "that's the stuff"... so it went from "that's the gear" to "that's gear" to just "gear".

[Jordan10la]

No, it's how they refer to a toothed machine part, such as a wheel or cylinder, that meshes with another toothed part to transmit motion or to change speed or direction.

Honestly I haven't a clue

[T-Hybrid]

I also hear Paul often refer to a song being "plastic", which I assume is good since I only hear it when I do well on a song.

[Branr]

I think plastic == vinyl...as in, what records were made out of back then?

[MrRepublic]

I also hear Paul often refer to a song being "plastic", which I assume is good since I only hear it when I do well on a song.

I think he says plastic soul, here's a qoute from Wikipedia (it's about Rubber Soul)

"McCartney conceived the album's title after overhearing a black musician's description of Mick Jagger's singing style as "plastic soul". Lennon confirmed this in a 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, stating, "That was Paul's title... meaning English soul. Just a pun."[5] McCartney said a similar phrase, "Plastic soul, man. Plastic soul...", at the end of "I'm Down" take 1, on Anthology 2."

[ArothmanMusic]

I think you mean the studio banter clip where Paul keeps saying "plastic soul, man...plastic soul." A black singer once called the Rolling Stones "plastic soul" music because Mick Jagger was a white guy singing black soul music. I think Paul was making a joke by saying it 'cause that's basically what Paul was also.

[LuigiHann]

"This is the famous Ringo, gear fab."

[hsecats]

"This is the famous Ringo, gear fab."

Thats not a bit like Cagney

[TheRocker]

That settles it I am going to try and bring "gear" back.