[NYC GOP Chick]

		03.22.2004 5:08 PM EST
		Battery Charges Against Rush Guitarist Diminished — But He's Not Off The Hook   Alex Lifeson still faces fine and/or jail time. by Jon Wiederhorn
			Alex Lifeson (file) (Photo: Naples Florida Police)

[NYC GOP Chick]

Rush Guitarist Charged in Hotel Fight

Mon Mar 22, 8:44 PM ET

NAPLES, Fla. - The lead guitarist for the rock band Rush was charged Monday with two counts of battery, more than three months after a New Year's Eve scuffle with sheriff's deputies at a Naples hotel.

Deputies said the fight started when the guitarist's son refused to get off the stage at The Ritz-Carlton, where the house band was performing.

Alex Zivojinovich, whose stage name is Alex Lifeson, tried to intervene when deputies escorted his son off the property, deputies said. They accused Rush's founding member of pushing a female deputy down a stairwell and spitting in another deputy's face.

Justin Zivojinovich, 33, was charged with one count of resisting with violence, and Alex Zivojinovich's wife was later charged with resisting arrest.

After his arrest that night, Alex Zivojinovich, 50, left jail with a bloodstained shirt and told reporters his nose was broken in the altercation. The two charges he faces are each punishable by up to five years in prison if he is convicted.

Zivojinovich's attorney declined to comment Monday.

[sharktrager]

Why does Rush need a guitarist?

[Petronski]

What's the remaining charge against him? "Producing dreadful, ghastly music?"

[thoughtomator]

Sentence him to play a free concert in Central Park this summer!

[NYC GOP Chick]

FYI

[dead]

They could jump into the Wayback machine and go back to 1980... back when there was a few humans roaming the earth who gave a crap about Rush.

They could form a giant posse of fans of pretentious, falsetto-voiced, goofy art bands and free all people imprisoned in spite of their connections to Rush, Yes, Air Supply, and Asia.

They would be free once more, until some actual rock and rollers found them, mocked them, and kicked their fairy asses.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

A modern-day warrior
Mean mean stride,
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean mean pride.

Though his mind is not for rent,
Don't put him down as arrogant.
His reserve, a quiet defense,
Riding out the day's events.
The river

And what you say about his company
Is what you say about society.
Catch the mist, catch the myth
Catch the mystery, catch the drift.

[montag813]

Police became involved and Lifeson allegedly elbowed one in the face, pushed a female officer down a staircase, and ripped an officer's radio from his uniform

Awww, I hope the radio wasn't injured. Man, cops have become such pussies these days.

[StarfireIV]

Well, I hope he doesn't have to do any jail time, I have tickets for the 3rd of July.

[Keltik]

Whenever I hear a Rush record I want to make a citizen's arrest on Geddy Lee's tonsils.