Luke – Guitar

Luke Hoskin is the lead guitarist of Protest the Hero.

Universally praised and admired for his skills on the axe, Luke is the driving force behind the band’s progression into ‘technical’ music. Sweeping, multi-finger tapping – he has it all handled.

Luke Hoskin Quotes

On learning guitar:

I hate to say it, but I started learning Offspring and Green Day songs like any other fourteen year old kid. Tim actually played guitar before me as well. We always had this rivalry going on to get better at something.

His favourite song to play:

My favorite song to play is “Limb From Limb”. I just love that intro. It’s like a minus time intro…I think I like that fact that Rody gets to leave for a second, and we get to just play music. I like that aspect, and then he comes back and joins us and it flows right together.

On getting guitar tips from YouTube fan videos:

I’ve seen some people playing the songs on the internet, and there’s this one dude that was playing a part that I still have trouble with. I think I tapped it, but now I’m trying to pick it. I saw him playing it a completely different way, and it sounded good. So now I play it his way [laughs]. I guess I’ll have to give him some royalties or something.

Sources: Ibanez

Photo: nathancolquhoun