i have to agree with the one that said "pinoys are impressed with chops"
and as performers, sometimes you have to wake up the audience either by showing your chops or doing semi acrobatics ... this tends to excite majority of the listeners and hence they will enjoy the experience more. if you overplay though, your chops will become a normal thing for the spectators and you will end up achieving ego-erotification. and if you do too much acrobatics, you will end up messing the song and you will become a circus act or a dance group... depending on your physical appearance.
i guess you really have to consider that majority of the crowd will enjoy your performance, more than you think of what other musicians (drummers in this case) might say.
if you play cover songs... at least try to stand out from the other bands who can execute the song note for note. thats just my opinion though ...