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Even if I'm a huge fan and I regard him as my favorite rock musician, I'm the first to admit that he can be very sloppy, and that his phrasing is anything but clean and articulate, especially when it comes to lead guitar.
... the way he layers those tracks, the tones he's uses and how he combines them, his predilection for odd/ugly tones and the way he resolves them into a bigger picture, the voicings he uses... And his acoustic work.
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As much as I like the first 3 albums a lot, and the bootlegs that they brought out, none of the later material was as good in the bootleg areas as the first 3 albums. There are mistakes, but you got to remember that less than 5% of the listeners at the concert are critical enough about what you play to even know it was an error, and it was sloppy, UNLESS, the song is so well known that you can't help not notice it.
After those 3 albums, the only work I like by Jimmy is all the stuff that he has done with Roy Harper, and specially "Jugula+4" which has some excellent things. Him and Roy are close friends going back to their kid days. Jimmy is in at least 5 or 6 albums. Not to mention John Paul Jones, that is also in amny of them, and you specially want to get the album "Headquarters" and turn it on VERY LOUD, and play "Playing the Game" and catch Chris Spedding turning Dave Gilmour inside out.
Jimmy has made some bad decisions, though. The album "How the West Was Won" was taken from the bootlegs at the time, and he changed a lot of the supposed "errors" in the performance and took its SOUL out of it. To me, that was stupid, when the energy in the performances came from the other 3 adjusting to his errors and breaks, that all of a sudden are missing the underneath content that they originally had!