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Full Name: Matsumoto Hideto
Nickname: hide [always spelled with lower case 'h']
Birth Date: December 13, 1964
Birthplace: Kanagawa, Yokosuka, Japan
Death Date: May 2, 1998
Blood Type: AB
Horoscope: Sagittarius
Height: 170 cm
Weight: Around 50kg
Bands: Yokosuka SAVER TIGER, X / X Japan, hide with Spread Beaver, MxAxSxS and Zilch.
Hide was the guitar player of X Japan.
He was know has the "Bad boy" of the and and was the only one who color
his year in latter years. He joined the band in 1987, leaving the band
Saver Tiger. hide also had
a lot of solo projects
is first one was "hide your face" was released in 1994 and the cover was
designed by H. R. Giger (Alien), costumes and decorations were made by the
Japanese special-effect specialist Screaming Mad George (Cocoon).
He released other cds with his band Spread Beaver and played with american
musicians in the band Zilch. Hide died on May, 2nd 1998 around 8:30. He reached
home at 6:30 and was very drunken. An hour later he was found by his girlfriend,
he had tried to hang himself at the door. hide died on the way to the hospital.
It was declared as a suicide by police and media, but friends and fans couldn't
believe this. it seem that
there was no resone for hide suicide
and hide had a lot of plans for the future and wasn't depressed that day.
. Some say that it was an accident because he was so drunken or he wanted to
scare his girlfriend. When he was drunken he often did things he wouldn't do
otherwise and often was scared afterwards. Eveyone in Japan was shocked and some
fans also tried to commit suicide, one girl died. This made everything even
worse. Yoshiki(member of X Japana) came from Los Angeles and helped hides family
to escape media. At Tsukiji Honganji, a temple in Tokyo where they put hide, he
held a speech to support the fans. You could see how hard it was for him. days
later there was a press conference with the other members and they could barely
speak. Again Yoshiki tried to support the fans. He said that he can't believe in
the suicide because he and hide wanted to make a new X in 2000. He told the fans
to keep hide in their memories and to find the strength to overcome the mourning
with the band, the family and the other fans.
On the
day of the funeral there were tousands of fans to bring flowers. Unfortunately
some tried to commit suicide and two people died in a car accident what made
everything even worse.
hides ash was strewn in the ocean in hides beloved city Los Angeles by his
brother Hiroshi. His grava is in Yokosuka on Miura.
Since
July there is a hide museum in Yokosuka where hides guitars, his car and other
things are shown. But there more sad new On the
official hide website is
a message that the hide museum will close at September, 25th 2005.
Someone posted a translation on Katin's and Chris X Japan home the forum you
can find it
here.
There is also a online petition to save the Museum, you can sign it
here.
Thanks to Katrin's and Chris' X Japan homepage for the info
Discography
Albums
- Hide Your Face
- Psyence
- Ja, Zoo
Singles
- "Eyes Love You"
- "50% & 50%"
- "Dice"
- "Tell Me"
- "Misery"
- "Beauty & Stupid"
- "Hi-Ho"/"Good Bye"
- "Rocket Dive"
- "Pink Spider"
- "Ever Free"
- "Hurry Go Round"
- "Tell Me"
- "In Motion"
Live albums
- Psyence a Go Go
- Hide Our Psychommunity
Compilations
- Tune Up
- Tribute Spirits
- Best: Psychommunity
- Psy Clone
- Singles - Junk Story
- King of Psyborg Rock Star
- With X Japan
- With Zilch
- 3.2.1.
- BastardEyes
......{Moer}