And You Will Know Us By The Tr - Madonna (Standard Jewelcase Cd

Excerpt from the Madonna liner notes, written by Conrad Keely: As I have already mentioned, there was no deadline for the making of Madonna. There was no budget either. There was no budget and deadline because there was no label. This was, in many ways, Mike McCarthy's idea - to record an album surreptitiously, using stolen studio time during off-hours whenever he could afford to have us in. Our later records would be made under the gun of the ticking clock, but not Madonna. In fact, we hardly ever knew when we'd be able to record. We'd most likely get a phone call (on our land lines, no cell phones then) on any given day that that evening might work out if we were available. We'd cram into the front cab of either Kevin or Neil's pickup truck, equipment in the back, and set off miles down the road. Once or twice we'd make the trip and have to call it off for some reason, but usually we could get in there for a few hours and lay something down. It was a slow process. How slow? It took us nine months.