Take Me Down

GS: What's the deal with the acoustic guitars?

CORGAN: That's a good question. [laughs] James has a bunch of good acoustics: A Gibson, a Takamine and a few others. I'd just grab whatever was around. He has a 12-string acoustic-I think it's a Gibson-that we tuned to the "Nashville" tuning [achieved by removing the regular strings on a 12-string, leaving only the higher octave strings for the 6th, 5th, 4th and 3rd strings; the 1st and 2nd strings are "unisons," so they stay in the same octave]. We used that tuning on "Thirty-Three," and it might be on "Take Me Down" or "Farewell and Goodnight."

1996 - Guitar School