1980s On 14 October 1988, Gibb and nine other students at The Lear School in Miami performed their first concert. The students performed at lunchtimes and for special events at the school. That same year Gibb and friends formed their own band, which was indecisively christened NNY for No Name Yet. Later they would settle on the name ZEX, and in February of that year they landed a gig at Woody's, a Miami club owned by
the Rolling Stones' guitarist
Ronnie Wood. Later in the year Gibb would work as a guitar technician on the
Bee Gees One For All tour.
1990s In 1991, after being his father's guitar technician for two years, Gibb enrolled in a music school in Miami where he got his degree. He began writing songs, the first of which was a solo effort, "Whiskey Jam". Other songs penned during this time were "Shadow of Your Dreams" with Emerson Forth and Deniz Kose. "Hole in My Soul" was also co-written with Kose. The song "Ren and Stevie" was co-written with Middle Ear Studio engineer, Scott Glasel and his girlfriend, Amanda Green. This song was a take-off on the Nickelodeon cartoon series
Ren and Stimpy. In 1992, Gibb and others including Forth, formed a metal band, SkilletHead, which performed the club circuit in and around Miami. That year Gibb also made occasional appearances as a guitarist backing the Bee Gees. In February 1997, Gibb joined The Underbellys. This five-piece band included Billy Velvet (lead vocals), Joel Dasilva (guitarist), Sean 'Evil' Gerovitz (bass), Randy Blitz (drums) and Gibb on guitar. The band played venues including the
Viper Room in Los Angeles and Don Hills in Greenwich Village. The Underbellys, including Gibb, recorded for
Columbia Records with
Pat DiNizio of
The Smithereens as their record producer. This did not result in a recording contract, and the band split up. In November 1997, Gibb performed live with his father and uncles for their 'One Night Only' concert in Las Vegas. He also toured with the Smithereens between 1997 and 98.
2000s Gibb joined
Nikki Sixx, Bucket Baker and
Dave Darling in
58. The concept Sixx had in mind when he formed 58 was of a non-touring, internet promoted entity, that would feature on his new record label, Americoma Records. The name of the band stemmed from the year 1958, in which both Sixx and Darling were born. Their sound, as exemplified on the band's only album released in early 2000, was a self-described mixture of "glam, hip hop, rock, pop, funk and a car crash". Gibb co-wrote "Who We Are", which featured on
Diet for a New America. The same year, Gibb appeared in the music video for
Black Label Society's "Counterfeit God" from their 2000 release
Stronger than Death. The band did not have a permanent bassist at the time (for the video
Mark Wahlberg was stand-in) Gibb joined
Zakk Wylde's
Black Label Society as bass player in the spring 2000.
Alcohol Fueled Brewtality, Black Label Society's live album was recorded in October 2000 and released on 16 January 2001. Gibb's backing vocals can be heard on tracks like "Stronger Than Death". The
Ozzfest 2001: The Second Millennium album included the track "Superterrorizer" recorded at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wisconsin on 9 June. Shortly after this, just weeks into the American Ozzfest schedule, Gibb left the band for personal reasons. In early 2004,
Kirk Windstein (founder of
Crowbar) planned a rebirth for Crowbar and rebuilt the band with Gibb as guitarist,
Pat Bruders on bass and
Tommy Buckley on drums. Their European tour of 2004 was a success, the highlight of which was their performance at the
With Full Force Festival in
Leipzig, Germany. This became the core of the 2007 released DVD
Crowbar: Live With Full Force Gibb, assisting John-Martin Vogel, produced a mix of live footage, backstage capers and interview pieces. The band has consistently toured Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. The band's 2005 album,
Lifesblood for the Downtrodden, was mastered at Middle Ear Studios (owned by Gibb's father). In 2005, Windstein teamed up with
Jamey Jasta of
Hatebreed to form a new side venture called
Kingdom of Sorrow. The band's
self-titled debut album was released on 19 February 2008 by
Relapse Records. It debuted at No. 131 on the US Billboard charts and sold 6,000 records in its first week of release. The album was recorded at Planet Z with producer Zeuss, known for his work with
Shadows Fall and many others. Gibb performed some solos and leads on a few tracks on this album and also went on the initial promotional tour I late February early March 2008. In 2007, Gibb played on his father's single "
Drown On the River". Gibb left Crowbar in 2009, citing family and business commitments in Miami.
2010s When his father Barry Gibb put together a show band to take around the world on his first solo tour, called the
Mythology Tour, Steve joined as guitar lead as he had for numerous annual Love & Hope Balls (see below). The first leg of the tour took in Australia and New Zealand in February 2013. Gibb performed as a solo the bluegrass track written by Maurice Gibb "
On Time", and took second vocals on the
Bee Gees hit "
I've Gotta Get a Message to You". The second leg went to England and Northern Ireland in September 2013. The track "Fight (No Matter How Long)" was added as Gibb's second solo. The track had been written in 1986 as part of the Bunbury Tails. The third leg was six US dates in May 2014. As part of the promotion, Gibb performed with his father on
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, 21 May 2014. In 2015, Gibb toured North America as the guitarist for the band Jasta fronted by
Jamey Jasta. Gibb joined the line-up of
Saigon Kick at the
Broward County, Florida centenary celebrations, the free street festival in Fort Lauderdale on 3 October 2015. == Other work ==