Thirty-Three

"A simple song in a country tuning, "Thirty-Three" was the first song the I wrote when I came home from all the Siamese Dream touring. I took three days off, and this was literally the first thing that came out of my hands when I sat down. I was living in my new house for the first time, and this song conveys all of that. The "cha-cha-cha" sound is my drum machine through a flanger, and what you hear is the same one right off the demo because I couldn't remember how to recreate it. The stringly sounds are part Vocoder, plus five slide guitars tuned to one note each to create the chords. "

-1997 Guitar World

----

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

Billy: 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."

-Guitar School - 1995

----

Regis: Now Billy, you can't tell me we didn't influence some of these songs.

Billy: You have an indirect influence on this album.

Regis: That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which song in particular?

Kathie Lee: They've sold 20 million of them, Regis.

Regis: Which song does Regis and Kathie Lee enter into here?

Billy: I would say the song they were just showing here, "Thirty-Three".

1997-Regis and Kathy Lee

----