Trash n' Privilege singer/guitarist has supergroup side project feat. members of Stone Sour, Lagwagon, Faith No More

Plus, another archive of Fresno concert footage, this time from the 2000s.

Nov 23, 2025

It happens more often than I’d like that I get surprised by some odd factoid of the Fresno music scene and am left thinking “damn, that seems like something I should have known.”

Such is the case with Dirty O’Keeffe, the quarantine-era side project from Thrash n Privilege singer/guitarist Steve Shepard, playing alongside Dave Raun, Christian Martucci and Billy Gould.

Last week, the band released a four-song EP, “Heavy Weather,” via Manic Kat Records (or maybe it’s a re-released, based on this teaser video from 2022).

Dirty O’Keeffe comes with some punk (and rock and punk-rock) bona fides:

Raun (who lived in Fresno for a time) plays drums in the punk band Lagwagon, but also this band Rich Kids on LSD (if you wanna go back).
Martucii (on vocal duties with Dirty O’Keeffe) plays guitar with Stone Sour, but has a resume that includes stints with Dee Dee Ramone, Chelsea Smiles and Black Star Riders.
Gould is best known as the bassist for Faith No More, but was also in Wayne Kramer’s MC50 and Jello Bifara’s Guantanamo School of Medicine.

“It kind of just fell together,” Shepard told me, via email.

“Dave and I have been friends for a long time. We used to be in a band called District of Columbias, like in 2009. Christian played guitar on some of those tracks. We have been trying to do something with Billy for a long time, but he was way too busy with FNM.

We did a COVID video and then decided to put out more music.”

“Brick or Bullet,” was released as a video single in 2020.

From the Youtube archives: Weird Al, My Chemical Romance + more

I stumbled on this Youtube channel while putting together my story on Weird Al’s upcoming Fresno date (by upcoming, I mean next year, but tickets went on sale this week, so …).

It’s a treasure trove of mid-2000s concert footage (from Fresno mostly, but also Bakersfield, Paso Robles and the like).

There’s not a lot in the way of actual information about the performances or how the videos were obtained, and the audio quality can be questionable, but the collected pieces offer a cool snapshot in time.

Like, I had not been paying attention I guess, when My Chemical Romance played the Selland Arena on the Black Parade tour in 2007. And I hadn’t realized that Neil Diamond had made a Fresno semi-regular stop prior to his 50th anniversary tour in 2017 (which I reviewed for The Fresno Bee).

Bandgeeeek!

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