Lyric Help - “Does anybody here really want to get small?”

jiggs(2) · Post by **jiggs(2)** » July 26, 2005 11:15 am

Hangin’ out in a marina when Steve Martin Calls
Does anybody here really want to get small?

So what does the second line mean? My wife is buggin me and I don't really have a good response...

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » July 26, 2005 11:19 am

Steve Martin had a comedy routine where he described "getting small" in much the same language as one might describe getting high.

It's a seventies thing.

CaptainP · Post by **CaptainP** » July 26, 2005 11:21 am

Dave beat me to it. If you get a chance, check out Steve Martin Live....one of the funniest live performances I've ever seen. He does the get small routine on it as well.

jimsig · Post by **jimsig** » July 26, 2005 11:23 am

Steve Martin did a comedy album in 1977 called Lets Get Small. I can't remember what the bit was excatly about, memory is kinda foggy that far back. Maybe somebody else can help.

http://www.stevemartin.com/world_of_ste ... +Get+Small

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » July 26, 2005 11:26 am

jiggs(2) wrote:Hangin’ out in a marina when Steve Martin Calls
Does anybody here really want to get small?

So what does the second line mean? My wife is buggin me and I don't really have a good response...

I can atest to the fact that it is a 70s thing. If someone said to you, "Lets get small" it meant "Let's get stoned"! And at 11:30 on Saturday nights in the late 70s many were doing that watching SNL on the tube!!!

Steve's album
Side one includes:
Ramblin' Man/Theme from Ramblin' Man (2:14)
Vegas (5:45)
Let's Get Small (13:34)

Side two includes:
Smoking (2:10)
One Way to Leave Your Lover (1:33)
Mad at My Mother (1:22)
Excuse Me (2:32)
Grandmother's Song (3:33)
Funny Comedy Gags (3:05)
Closing (2:02)

An excerpt from the title cut:

I'm on drugs. You know what I'm talking about. I like to get small. It's very dangerous for kids, because they get realllly small.
I know I shouldn't get small when I'm driving, but I was drivin' around the other day and a cop pulls me over ... says, 'Hey, are you small?' I say, 'No, I'm tall.' He says, 'I'm gonna have to measure you.' They give you a little test with a balloon. If you can get inside it, they know you're small ... and they can't put you in a regular cell either, because you walk right out.

jiggs(2) · Post by **jiggs(2)** » July 26, 2005 11:28 am

thanks much...we did debate if it was a drug reference...turns out it was...1977...hmmm I'll have to go back to the archives and find that one

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » July 26, 2005 11:30 am

jiggs(2) wrote:thanks much...we did debate if it was a drug reference...turns out it was...1977...hmmm I'll have to go back to the archives and find that one

LOOK UP

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » July 27, 2005 12:54 am

jiggs(2) wrote:thanks much...we did debate if it was a drug reference...turns out it was...1977...hmmm I'll have to go back to the archives and find that one

I have the Album Come to Idaho

We will make Margaritas and listen

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » July 27, 2005 6:55 am

ragtopW wrote:
jiggs(2) wrote:thanks much...we did debate if it was a drug reference...turns out it was...1977...hmmm I'll have to go back to the archives and find that one
I have the Album Come to Idaho

We will make Margaritas and listen

Duuuude... if you need company, just invite Beerman over...

Ilph · Post by **Ilph** » July 27, 2005 10:22 am

CaptainP wrote:Dave beat me to it. If you get a chance, check out Steve Martin Live....one of the funniest live performances I've ever seen. He does the get small routine on it as well.

I think Steve Martin is one of the funniest men to every grace this earth. I laugh every time I hear the "get small" reference.

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » July 27, 2005 10:42 am

ragtopW wrote:
jiggs(2) wrote:thanks much...we did debate if it was a drug reference...turns out it was...1977...hmmm I'll have to go back to the archives and find that one
I have the Album Come to Idaho

We will make Margaritas and listen

Wayne, wouldn't milkshakes be more appropriate?

aeroparrot · Post by **aeroparrot** » July 27, 2005 11:06 am

bravedave wrote:Steve Martin had a comedy routine where he described "getting small" in much the same language as one might describe getting high.

It's a seventies thing.

Kind of figured he meant getting high but didn't know where the reference came from.

parrotheadedrhino · Post by **parrotheadedrhino** » July 27, 2005 2:10 pm

Actually saw him do that in '77. Too damn funny.

.....I found out my cat was embezzelling from me...yeah, he'd go down to the mailbox, with his little arrow thru the head on [another of his trademark props], cash my checks.....how did I know....I found a closet FULL of new cat toys....couldn't return them, they had cat spit all over 'em...

He's also one hell of a banjo picker!

CatLover · Post by **CatLover** » July 27, 2005 3:03 pm

My favorite routine was: ~~severe choking sound ~~"What happened? What happened? He spoke FRENCH!!!"

babbitphed · Post by **babbitphed** » July 27, 2005 4:13 pm

Another Steve Martin reference (as you all should know) is on YHTBT.
"...I can't play them all, Excuuuuuuussssssseeee me, where here at the wild and crazy Fox theater..."
Ahhh the '70s, Steve Martin, classic SNL, so many memories forgotten

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » July 27, 2005 4:28 pm

parrotheadedrhino wrote:
He's also one hell of a banjo picker!

I never knew that until I saw a video on CMT.... Vince Gill , Steve Martin and a slew of others just picking away. Awesome! They actually got the Grammy award I think

Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance (Foggy Mountain Breakdown with Marty, Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs, Glen Duncan, Steve Martin, Vince Gill, Gary Scruggs, Albert Lee, Paul Shaffer, Jerry Douglas and Leon Russell)

sonofabeach · Post by **sonofabeach** » July 27, 2005 7:15 pm

first rap song I ever heard was King Tut

BigRedParrothead · Post by **BigRedParrothead** » July 27, 2005 8:33 pm

It's on the Best of Steve Martin on Saturday Night Live. Rent/buy it. Very funny stuff.

ragtopW · Post by **ragtopW** » July 27, 2005 8:35 pm

rednekkPH wrote:
ragtopW wrote:
jiggs(2) wrote:thanks much...we did debate if it was a drug reference...turns out it was...1977...hmmm I'll have to go back to the archives and find that one
I have the Album Come to Idaho

We will make Margaritas and listen
Wayne, wouldn't milkshakes be more appropriate?

PhutureMD · Post by **PhutureMD** » July 28, 2005 9:41 pm

babbitphed wrote:Another Steve Martin reference (as you all should know) is on YHTBT.
"...I can't play them all, Excuuuuuuussssssseeee me, where here at the wild and crazy Fox theater..."
Ahhh the '70s, Steve Martin, classic SNL, so many memories forgotten

Also....dreaming of Cheryl Tiegs....big american breasts (ala wild and crazy guy) from Live By The Bay (on further reflection it seems I may be wrong, maybe on a live album, perhaps YHTBT. I can't remember, but it's out there somewhere

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