Simple Minds - Ghostdancing

[mandohack]

You suppose the bass "solo" late in the live version of "Ghost Dancing" (Ghostdancing) by Simple Minds from their "Live in the City of Lights" that John Giblin is using a double-thumbing technique to get such percussive, fast notes going? It's a great little bit that always catches my ear.

 

[bass12]

That, to me, sounds like a pick and light gauge strings.

 

[bass12]

Then again if this is John Giblin then he does appear to be doing somthing that could very well be double thumbing:

 

[bass12]

This is from an interview with JG that I just came across. I don't know if it relates to what is heard on "Ghostdancing":

"I don't do slap at all now, but there was a period where
I experimented with fast rhythmic delays, and slap was
necessary for the percussive element. I had to add a lot of
low 200hz to 400hz to bring out the note with that technique".

 

[mandohack]

Thanks guys.

The higher parts sound like thumping on the D and G to me, but can't imagine playing them that fast and that cleanly without a double thumbing technique. I don't get pick attack out of it.