All depends why you are playing the music, if you are trying to play the music as well as you can and for dancing the 3 part version is rubbish for dancing as a slide.
Steve Shaw, if you were in the company of Jackie Daly,I doubt if you would play the 3 part clown version.
When I am lucky enough to be in that situation I try to listen to how an expert player interprets the music,I do not jump up and down like an ageing, demented, decrepit, leprechaun.
For me it is about listening and learning, not acting the goat.
If I want to see clowns I go to a circus.