Originally Posted by DevilsSon

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.