As It Occurs To Me whispering something and at one point exits pursued by a bear; a reference to a stage direction in "A Winter's Tale". Tiny Andrew Collings is also famous for exclaiming his own compliments and pretending they came from the audience, with the faux self-effacing phrase "Be quiet, you people in the crowd saying those things". Despite having died at the end of Series Two (reciting the poem "Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep"), Tiny Andrew returned on the Edinburgh special, claiming responsibility for most of the bad things that had occurred to Richard over the previous month (with the
Exit...Stage Left quality. In subsequent years however, Lee developed a more critical view of "Exit...Stage Left", noting that the group tried to make it sound "too perfect" in part by reducing the levels of audience noise, while Lifeson for his part thought the album sounded too clean and not as raw as "All the World's a Stage", and as a consequence the band aimed to reach a "middle ground" between the two with "A Show of Hands", Rush's third live release. Nevertheless, the album remains a fan favorite. Rush performs a short rendition of "Ebb Tide" before "Jacob's Ladder". "Broon's Bane" is