Josh Homme Sentenced for

Brawl
QOTSA frontman must undergo anger
management after attacking Dwarves
singer
Corey Levitan June 10, 2005

Queens of the Stone Age singer Josh Homme has pleaded

no contest to two counts of misdemeanor battery stemming
from an attack on Dwarves singer Blag Dahlia at a November
Dwarves show in Los Angeles.

Homme was placed on summary probation for thirty-six

months. He was also ordered to stay 100 yards away from
Dahlia and the Dragonfly club (where the incident occurred),
to not possess deadly weapons, to perform community
service and to enroll in both an anger management program
and a sixty-day residential rehab facility. (The records did
not say what the rehab was for.) Two other charges (battery
and assault with a deadly weapon) were dropped.

Homme and Blag are former friends believed to have fallen

out over Nick Oliveri, an ex-member of the Dwarves who was
hired (and later fired) by QOTSA. The lyrics from “Massacre,”
off the Dwarves’ 2004 CD The Dwarves Must Die, include:
“This one goes out to Queens of the Trust Fund/You slept on
my floor/And now I’m sleeping through your motherfucking
records.” Oliveri appears on the track.

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Witnesses to the attack say Homme showed up backstage
and poured a bottle of beer over Dahlia’s head while singing,
“Whatcha gonna do?” A shoving match ensued, and Homme
struck Dahlia on the head. Despite the blow, Dahlia
performed as planned. After the show, his wife drove him to
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, where he received
stitches. Police were not called at the time, but security
removed Homme from the venue. Dahlia (a.k.a. Paul Cafaro)
pressed charges on December 29th.

Homme is due back at the Hollywood Courthouse, Division

79, on July 27th to prove that he enrolled in both anger
management and rehab.