Guitar Center and Charlie Sexton will join Gibson Guitar for a special event to launch the world's first guitar with robotic technology, the Gibson Robot Guitar.

The event takes place on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 3 p.m. at Guitar Center, 2525 West Anderson Lane, Ste. 200, Austin, Texas. True to the spirit of innovation, Gibson Guitar is set to make musical history with the invention of the world's first Robot Guitar.

Austin-raised singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Charlie Sexton made his debut with 'Pictures For Pleasure' in 1985 at age 16. He followed up that release with a self-titled second album when he was 20. As a prodigy guitar player, Sexton is known for his live and session guitar work with Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, David Bowie and Don Henley; his album production for Lucinda Williams, Edie Brickell, Los Super Seven and Shannon McNally; and his own projects, both as a member of Arc Angels and a solo artist, including his fourth album, 'Cruel And Gentle Things'.

The public and press are invited to attend this sneak peak and exclusive event hosted by Charlie Sexton, who will demonstrate and perform with the world's first run limited edition version of the Gibson Les Paul Robot Guitar. A question and answer session will follow.

The Gibson Robot Guitar goes on sale at 5 p.m. on Friday, December 7, 2007, with a very limited number of guitars at each of the participating dealers.

To find the list of exclusive Robot Guitar dealers go to: Gibson Robot Guitar Dealers.

Guitar Center at 2525 Anderson Lane, Austin, will take reservations for the Gibson Robot Guitar during the special event. Once the limited supply is sold out, Gibson Guitar will not reproduce. Only ten robotic guitars per store are available.

For more information on this special event go to www.gibson.com or contact Guitar Center at 512.891.0297.

Charlie Sexton

Guitar Center

Gibson Official Website

It's very interesting to see that Sony BMG has jumped on to the Music Blog Wagon. Here at BandWeblogs.com we've known how important band blogs are and have been promoting bands and musicians' blogs since January 2005!

But I'm not here to toot my own horn. As far as I'm concerned, Sony BMG - you're preachin' to the choir. Band Weblogs started out as a Band Blog and Music Blog directory and now Guest Music Bloggers have been contributing their band press, music reviews, band stories and music links for greater exposure.

The more free places on the internet that bands and musicians can go to get exposure the better and as I've mentioned recently, band blogs are great marketing tools. The bands that do create a blog at Vox hoping to get discovered by a Sony A&R rep should realize that there will be many more benefits to writing in the blog than just for those particular record labels. The band blogs at Vox are available to anyone who might want to read them which means that they're also great marketing tools for other possibilities and discoveries.

I've created a blog and profile for my band The Babylon Cowboys at Vox which you can find here: http://thebabyloncowboys.vox.com/. I'll be updating the blog with our music and various random thoughts. You never know!

The A&R reps, who also have their own Vox blogs, will be looking for bands that have great music, positive comments, good ratings, lots of friends - basically a lot of buzz and I'm sure that Sony BMG, Columbia Records or RCA Records will be announcing their first Vox blog signing soon.

Chairman and CEO of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, UK & Ireland, Ged Doherty even has a blog at Vox. He's written some interesting blog entries there if you want to read what Ged has to say about the new Sony BMG blog initiative, his experiences with bands and his various thoughts.

Ged Doherty Sony BMG Blog

Bands can sign up for a Vox blog here:

Columbia Demos
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For more information about Sony go to Sony BMG Music UK

Once you have created your Vox blog and have some songs and entries up, why not come back here to Band Weblogs and tell us all about it!

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By: Jenny May