Editing Skid Row (Skid Row album) (section)

==Background and recording==
[[Skid Row (American band)|Skid Row]] was formed in 1986, in [[Toms River, New Jersey]], when guitarist [[Dave Sabo]] met bassist [[Rachel Bolan]] in a local guitar store where Sabo worked. As they shared similar musical influences, they began rehearsing in Bolan's parents' garage. Guitarist [[Scotti Hill]] came from Bolan's previous club band, and Sabo's acquaintance, upstate New Yorker, [[Rob Affuso]], played drums in a [[Rush (band)|Rush]] tribute band.<ref name="RS">{{cite magazine|last=Wild|first=David|title=Skid Row: Pretty Bad Boys|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/pretty-bad-boys-19910919?page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807193408/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/pretty-bad-boys-19910919?page=3|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 7, 2016|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=September 19, 1991|access-date=June 5, 2016}}</ref> Once the band was formed, Skid Row started [[gigging]] in nightclubs throughout the Eastern United States and quickly built a small following.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hur|first=Michael|title=Shadows of the Music Industry|date=2014|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-31230-605-9|page=172}}</ref> Sabo was a childhood friend of [[Jon Bon Jovi]] and they had agreed if one of them succeeded in the music business, to help the other out. Skid Row caught the attention of [[Bon Jovi]]'s manager [[Doc McGhee]] while opening for Bon Jovi on their 1987 [[Slippery When Wet Tour]]. McGhee suggested the band replace original singer [[Matt Fallon]] because he lacked the rest of the group's drive.<ref name="CR">{{cite web|last=Ling|first=Dave|title=How Skid Row and Sebastian Bach Went To War|url=http://teamrock.com/feature/2003-12-10/skid-row-it-didn-t-matter-what-we-did-it-wasn-t-our-time-anymore|work=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]|date=December 10, 2003|access-date=June 5, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Metzer|first=Greg|title=Rock Band Name Origins|date=2008|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|isbn=978-0-7864-3818-1|page=172}}</ref>

[[Sebastian Bach]] was introduced to Skid Row by the parents of Jon Bon Jovi, who saw Bach sing at rock photographer [[Mark Weiss]]' wedding. After completing the lineup, the group signed with [[Richie Sambora]]'s and Bon Jovi's publishing company Underground, unknowingly giving them the lion's share of the group's royalties. Skid Row later restored Sambora's share of the royalties, but Bon Jovi kept his, which caused a rift between Bon Jovi and Bach.<ref name="CR"/> After negotiating with [[Geffen Records|Geffen]] and [[A&M Records|A&M]], Skid Row finally settled with [[Ahmet Ertegun]] and [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] in 1988. The band used the Royal Recorders studio in [[Lake Geneva, Wisconsin]] with producer [[Michael Wagener]] to record its debut album. The unpretentious studio was in the back end of a hotel, where the band stayed. Skid Row worked according to a schedule made by Wagener and stayed "dry" while recording.<ref>{{cite web|last=Derrough|first=Leslie Michele|title=Interview with Dave 'Snake' Sabo of Skid Row|url=http://www.glidemagazine.com/122089/dave-snake-sabo-skid-row-interview/|work=Glide Magazine|date=August 4, 2014|access-date=June 8, 2016}}</ref> The sessions went smoothly as the band had been playing and performing the songs for the past year.<ref name="Spin">{{cite journal|last=Black|first=Lee|title=Born to Be Wild|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=msdh3F68Q44C&q=skid+row+band&pg=PA46|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=December 1989|pages=45–47|access-date=June 6, 2016}}</ref> The label initially pressed 150,000 copies of the album and booked the band an opening slot on Bon Jovi's 1988–1989 [[New Jersey Syndicate Tour]].<ref name="RS"/>