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Kevin Gilbert (November 20, 1966 - May 17, 1996) was an American musician, born in Sacramento, California. He died of autoerotic asphyxiation at the age of twenty-nine.

He was an accomplished instrumentalist and composer, who played keyboards, guitars, drums, bass and cellos, as well as singing vocals. His talents also extended to producer. He toured with Eddie Money before winning the Yamaha songwriting competition with his progressive rock group Giraffe. Producer Patrick Leonard was impressed with Gilbert’s performance at the competition and invited him to join him in forming a new band which became Toy Matinee. During this time, Gilbert worked on the projects of several established pop musicians, including Madonna, Michael Jackson and produced Keith Emerson’s album Changing States.

The lone Toy Matinee album was released in 1990 but effectively shelved by the record company, so Gilbert assembled a new backing band to promote the album, eventually getting two successful singles released: “The Ballad Of Jenny Ledge” and “Last Plane Out”.

Later, Gilbert was part of a songwriting collective (called “The Tuesday Music Club”) that met at producer Bill Bottrell’s studio in Pasadena, California. After he began bringing his then girlfriend Sheryl Crow to the sessions, the result was Crow’s debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club. Gilbert co-wrote many of the songs on that album, including 1995 Grammy Record of the Year “All I Wanna Do.” Crow later acrimoniously split with most of the musicians in the collective and only Bottrell was involved in her follow-up album. Meanwhile the remainder of the collective worked with singer-songwriters Susanna Hoffs and Linda Perry on two more albums.
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  • Tanmut

    ↓ Ha ha....☺

    27 Sep 2012 Reply

  • lobo2190

    Spread the KG`s word kevians!!!! haha.

    16 Feb 2012 Reply

  • Bob_The_Fighter

    You were gone too soon, Kev.

    26 Oct 2011 Reply

  • SoundscapeMN

    can't believe I just shelled over about $50 for 3 rare Toy Matinee cd/mini-cd singles on gemm.com.

    16 Aug 2011 Reply

  • KathyRockett

    I love Kevin Gilbert. That's the only thing I have to say.

    17 Jul 2011 Reply

  • elmuncho

    15 years. r.i.p.

    17 May 2011 Reply

  • TheProgtologist

    @lobo2190........The KG estate has said there are a few more albums worth of unreleased material that will eventually be released.

    25 Mar 2011 Reply

  • lobo2190

    i hope that there where more material unrealeased like nuts & bolts :-O.

    26 Jan 2011 Reply

  • RFL00

    Hi, Kevin Gilbert is awesome, was a very talented musician songwriter. I found this site http://specialty.weebly.com/kevingilbert.html, looks like it has some rare material also with Giraffe, they have some audio samples too, anyway thought someone would like this since it's so hard to find rare material.

    3 Dec 2010 Reply

  • senor_velasco

    Yes, there is quite a bit of background noise and it skips but until I find a better copy it's got to suffice. Like I said, 8 months...

    28 Nov 2010 Reply

  • TheProgtologist

    Wow,that must have been very hard to find!

    26 Nov 2010 Reply

  • senor_velasco

    I ordered it on LP.

    19 Nov 2010 Reply

  • TheProgtologist

    The Toy Matinee album is the best pop album I have ever heard.It was definitely Kevin's attempt at making complex,musically challenging pop music.It took me ages to find it too,did you get the special edition with the 5 bonus tracks?

    19 Nov 2010 Reply

  • senor_velasco

    Toy Matinee LP ordered today! It only took 8 months to find it... keeping my fingers crossed that it will arrive in one piece

    5 Nov 2010 Reply

  • MenteLisergica

    Deserves soooo much more listeners

    15 Oct 2010 Reply

  • dtismajesty

    The saddest part of all of it is that, if he had just lasted a little longer, his life probably would have taken a great turn. He was going to audition for his idol band! (and knowing his talent and charisma, I'm sure he would have made it)

    10 Oct 2010 Reply

  • DeValanten

    He was an angel...

    22 Sep 2010 Reply

  • onthewall2983

    It was a crappy thing for her to do, taking the credit for the song. But I don't take it as far as some have, saying she was responsible for his "suicide". His death was a terrible accident and not much else.

    28 Jul 2010 Reply

  • SoundscapeMN

    I found copies of Toy Matinee on cassette actually a few months ago. The Live at the Roxy bootleg with Sterile Cow has been heard for many years. I guess the fact you barely hear her doing any singing ("There Was A Little Boy"), I don't care too much. It's still a terrific live recording.

    27 Jul 2010 Reply

  • TheProgtologist

    Something just as weird is listening to the recently released "Kevin Gilbert plays Toy Matinee Live".Crow plays keyboards and sings background vocals and even though it's a great album it just pisses me off to hear her on it.

    27 Jul 2010 Reply
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