Jim Moginie is an Australianmusician. From the 1970s until 2002 he played guitar for rock band Midnight Oil. Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized sound, though definitions may vary. ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... Midnight Oil were an Australian rock band known for their driving hard rock sound, superb live performances and their overt left-wing political activism. ...
But as an inventive guitarist who could be as lyrical as he was powerful and as a writer who found ways to channel everything from post-punk drive to the silence of a desert night, he was one of the (hidden) cornerstones of a band which never dropped its standards.
Musically, being of the moment has never been a worry for Moginie so we won't be seeing him backed by a 19-year-old DJ or borrowing a soap star to sing the choruses.
Typically, the self-effacing Moginie sees the solo work as part of helping him with his other gig, the studio producer, where he gets to be Sideshow Bob again rather than Krusty the frontman.
But as an inventive guitarist who could be as lyrical as he was powerful and as a writer who found ways to channel everything from post-punk drive to the silence of a desert night, he was one of the (hidden) cornerstones of a band which never dropped its standards.
Musically, being of the moment has never been a worry for Moginie so we won't be seeing him backed by a 19-year-old DJ or borrowing a soap star to sing the choruses.
Typically, the self-effacing Moginie sees the solo work as part of helping him with his other gig, the studio producer, where he gets to be Sideshow Bob again rather than Krusty the frontman.