Take Me Down

"Take Me Down" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' third studio album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. It is one of two songs written by James Iha to appear on the album, the other being "Farewell and Goodnight".

Greg Leisz, who provided pedal and lap steel guitar on the song, said of his involvement: "I just got contacted. I forget if it was directly by James Iha or the management.  It was just that Billy Corgan was allowing James to do one song on a double album.  [Laughs]  He was like, 'Here’s this carrot. You can do anything you want.'  He asked me to come to Chicago and I was there.  I overdubbed on the song.  He had Flood and the other producer [Alan Moulder].  They had two different studios in the same complex.  Billy was in one room working on his stuff and James was in this other room working on his song.  It wasn’t much."

Personnel

 * James Iha – rhythm and lead guitar; vocals, mixing, and additional production
 * Greg Leisz – pedal and lap steel guitar