I agree with all of that.Re I Know What I Like, maybe I'm in the minority, but I'm in the camp which really loved the extended instrumental jam when the post-Gabriel band did that live. Obviously when Peter sang the song, he acted out the lawnmower aspect and emphasized the English humor of the rather simple but effective song.
So when Phil sings the song, he's not going to try to replicate Pete's schtick, so he does the tambourine bit in the middle. That got the crowd into it as he impressively kept time while hitting kicking and even knocking it on his head etc. What I found fascinating is as that aspect was highlighted, Banks was allowed the freedom to improvise on the keys and add different synth bits, adding the Stagnation part etc, and I always found that more casual impromptu jam a real highlight of the live concerts. Genesis usually stuck pretty close to how the albums sounded and IKWIL was a welcome exception and showed their looser side. The tune got longer and longer and obviously Genesis knew it was a highlight because they moved it to one of the last tunes or an encore tune by 80/81/82 and those IKWILs grew to about 10-11 minutes long. The live versions on the Duke, Abacab and 3SL tours were awesome and real crowd pleasers.
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