Editing Keep the Faith (section)

==Recording and production==
In January 1992, the band headed to [[Little Mountain Sound Studios|Little Mountain Studios]] in [[Vancouver]], British Columbia. They spent seven months making the album with [[Bob Rock]] producing. Originally, the band had approached [[Bruce Fairbairn]], who produced ''[[Slippery When Wet]]'' and ''[[New Jersey (album)|New Jersey]]'', but he was working on [[Aerosmith]]'s ''[[Get a Grip]]'' at the time. Most of the recording was done in Vancouver, although a couple of tracks and overdubs were laid down in Los Angeles.

"When we got back together in a room in Vancouver," noted Jon Bon Jovi in 2007, "we closed the door and ignored what had happened to our genre of music. We'd been kicked in the teeth by [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], but we didn't pay attention to that. We got rid of the clichés, wrote some socially conscious lyrics and got a haircut. I didn't do a [[grunge]] thing and I didn't do a [[rap metal|rap]] thing. But I knew I couldn't re-write '[[Livin' on a Prayer]]' again, so I didn't try. And it paid off."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Mark|last=Blake|author-link=Mark Blake (writer)|title=My brilliant career: Jon Bon Jovi|magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] #253|date=August 2007|page=68}}</ref>

Of the thirty songs written for the album, a couple were co-written by [[David Bryan]] and a couple by [[Desmond Child]]; the rest being by Jon Bon Jovi/Richie Sambora compositions and by Bon Jovi alone. Fourteen songs made it to the final album. Jon Bon Jovi wrote half of the album's songs alone.

Before the band reunited in the studio, Bon Jovi spent the summer of 1991 in anonymity, riding his motorbike in places like [[Arizona]], gaining experiences that inspired him to write "[[Dry County (song)|Dry County]]" and "[[Bed of Roses (Bon Jovi song)|Bed of Roses]]". He later commented "It would never have been possible [for me] to write songs like 'Bed of Roses' or 'Dry County' five years ago."