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Originally Posted by Supersonic
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I think it didn't. Although Appetite was released in 1987 it had been mostly flying under the radar and it wasn't popular until roughly August 1988 when the singles started to take off. Bon Jovi started recording New Jersey in March 1988, while at that time Appetite wasn't even in the charts anymore. So no, I don't think it influenced New Jersey. At most, the popular heavier songs from Bon Jovi paved the way for the succes of Welcome To The Jungle and Paradise City.
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I guess you have a point there. Welcome to the Jungle was definitely released in 1987 and you'd assume Bon Jovi would have heard it (and the record as a whole) but it took until 1988 for it to take off, by the time Jovi would have written some if not most of Jersey...
Maybe it's just me listening to the 2 records back to back, but it's the closest Jovi and GnR have sounded to each other.