Steve Lukather was already an in-demand session player when his melding of jazz and blues-rock influences gained national attention in 1978 as lead guitarist in the band Toto. Through the 1980s, Lukather split his time between the group, session work, and a solo career, eventually participating in over 800 No. 1 albums as a guitarist, arranger or writer. Lukather teamed up with Music Man in 1993 to create a signature model called the Luke.

The body style was an elongated Stratocaster-inspired shape. The neck featured a deep-V profile, and the headstock sported the four-and-two tuner arrangement that had become a signature of Music Man’s Ernie Ball era. The active pickups are in a humbucker-single-single “Super Strat” configuration, and they are Lukather’s design, too – a signature set made by EMG. The Floyd Rose vibrato completed the Super Strat features.

AS Toto reached it’s 30th anniversary in 2008, Lukather was still the band’s lead guitarist and the Music Man Luke was still in production.