JASON HOOK of FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH

Jason Hook was born and grew up in Canada. His mother enrolled
him in piano lessons at 6 years old. It didn’t take long until he
knew the piano wasn’t for him. So he asked his mother if he could
take guitar lessons instead. His father bought him an imitation
Les Paul from Sears and Jason started playing guitar. A neighbor
was forced to part with a few Kiss records and gifted them to
Jason. He would listen to them while looking at the covers and
decided that he wanted to be Kiss. He asked his father to buy him
a bass and a drum kit so he could start forming bands which he
did throughout his school years. After graduating high school, he
started sneaking into bars which led to the desire to start a bar
band. It didn’t take long before that band was formed and signed
to Electra records. To his dismay, shortly after they were
dropped by the label, leaving him to make a big decision. He
would either have to get a “real” job or move to L.A. to give
music another shot. With a couple hundred bucks, he dead-headed
from Canada to L.A. where he had one friend. He crashed on his
friend’s couch and began playing guitar with everyone and anyone
he could. It was with one of those bands where he met Jeremy
Spencer. The two of them knew they wanted to be in a band
together. But after several projects, decided to do their own
things. Jason began playing with Alice Cooper and Vince Neil
while Jeremy answered an ad and began writing songs with Zoltan
Bathroy and formed Five Finger Death Punch. While 5 F.D.P. were
about to record their second album, Jason joined them and the
recorded the Platinum selling “War is the Answer”