Gibson brings Music City to Vegas for Consumer Electronics Show
A - Friday, January 07, 2005
Free guitars, Battle of the Bands highlight opening day.
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It’s only Gibson’s third year at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but the Gibson tent is already infamous as the place to go for good music and good times. A pair of 10-foot guitars, borrowed from the Nashville GuitarTown project, welcomed the 150,000 attendees to the “Gibson Music City” booth for music, parties and guitar giveaways.  

Opening day festivities continued well into the night with a Battle of the Bands, highlighted by a 14-year-old rocker Nick Sterling, with Gibson chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz sitting in.

Before the music and partying starts up again today, the Gibson Audio division promises to show their prototype for the new Wurlitzer Home Theater System along with the first production units of the award-winning Gibson Digital Jukebox.

Check in with gibson.com for a full report after the show.

Gibson Music City, just before show opening.

What happens in Vegas…
Daniel Kurywchak, a student at the University of California-Davis, wins a Gibson Acoustic, presented by Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz.

Jake Mintz of the Texas Instruments band raises his Les Paul Studio in triumph at Gibson’s Battle of the Bands.
Jake won his guitar Vegas-style, in an onstage hand of poker. He beat out the other contestants by drawing trip threes.
 
Dean Summers won his Gibson SG the hard way,
by being the best guitar player at the Battle of the Bands.

For the second year in a row Nick Sterling wowed the crowd with screaming rock and roll licks on his Les Paul Standard.

The Les Paul Supreme lived up to its name, reigning supreme in the hands of Henry Juszkiewicz…
 
 

….and Jeff McCreary of the band Vanpass

.…and Ken Moore, also of Vanpass.

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