POP/ROCK - May 4, 1989

Radio airplay of a bootleg album of Guns N’ Roses rehearsal performances has provoked the band to threaten legal action if the broadcasts aren’t halted. Lawyers for the L.A. hard rock group have warned more than 500 radio stations not to play selections from the bootleg, titled “No Refrain.” A letter sent last week to the radio stations said, in part, “The broadcast of material from the bootleg record deprives (the band) of its basic right as an artist to create, and present to the public, material in a form and at the time which (it believes) is proper.” A representative of L.A.’s KIQQ-FM, on which the album reportedly had been heard, had no comment Wednesday.