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[[Hideto Matsumoto]] (1964-1998), known as [[My Nayme Is|hide]], was the lead guitarist and one of the major creative members of [[X Japan]] from 1987 until 1997. He is co-credited, often, with Yoshiki for beginning [[Visual Kei]] as an artistic movement, and while working with Yoshiki, encouraged him to sign the band [[Luna Sea]] to Extasy Records, which eventually led to their own success as a popular band. Writing songs such as "Joker," "Love Replica," "Miscast," "Celebration," and "Drain," he soon branched out into an enormously successful solo career that encompassed 1993 to 1998.▼
Having been a hard rock guitarist with Yokosuka Saber Tiger and Dementia before joining X, he tended to prefer [[Hard Rock]] and [[
▲Hideto Matsumoto (1964-1998), known as [[My Nayme Is|hide]], was the lead guitarist and one of the major creative members of [[X Japan]] from 1987 until 1997. He is co-credited, often, with Yoshiki for beginning [[Visual Kei]] as an artistic movement, and while working with Yoshiki, encouraged him to sign the band [[Luna Sea]] to Extasy Records, which eventually led to their own success as a popular band. Writing songs such as "Joker," "Love Replica," "Miscast," "Celebration," and "Drain," he soon branched out into an enormously successful solo career that encompassed 1993 to 1998.
Being a former hairdresser and stylist, hide was one of the most truly visual members of [[X Japan]], continuing to appear with his trademark red-spectrum color hair, unique clothes and guitars, and [[Badass]] stage presence well into when the rest of the band had traded shocking attire for more traditional expensive rocker styles.
▲Having been a hard rock guitarist with Yokosuka Saber Tiger and Dementia before joining X, he tended to prefer [[Hard Rock]] and [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]] to ballads, notably being on record as saying Endless Rain was the only X ballad he truly liked to perform. In his solo career, he would do everything from [[Jazz]] to [[Electronic Music]] to [[Pop]] to [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]] to [[Goth|gothic]] [[Industrial]], [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|often combining said styles wildly in songs or albums]]. He was one of the first true [[Cyberpunk]] musicians, and his promotional videos and live solo act, hide with Spread Beaver, would often incorporate [[Cyberpunk]] or technological themes. He would, near the end of his life, try to break into the American music industry with the band [[Zilch]], which released one album featuring his works posthumously.
▲Being a former hairdresser and stylist, hide was one of the most truly visual members of [[X Japan]], continuing to appear with his trademark red-spectrum color hair, unique clothes and guitars, and [[Badass]] stage presence well into when the rest of the band had traded shocking attire for more traditional expensive rocker styles.
On May 2, 1998, hide was found dying. He was taken to a hospital, where efforts to revive him were unsuccessful and he was declared dead. The best comparison of what unfolded to something the Western music scene could be familiar with would be if Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley had died at the exact same time, of reasons no one could really ascertain. [[Yoshiki Hayashi|Yoshiki]] went into a deep depression and many years of mourning for his closest and best friend, and some fans [[Love Makes You Crazy|committed suicide]] at the thought of being faced with a world without him. [[Epileptic Trees|Many theories were and still are debated]].
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Has sadly been made into a [[Cash Cow Franchise]].
'''Band Members'''
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* Zilch: Ray McVeigh, Paul Raven, Joe Castillo, I.N.A.
{{discography}}
'''Studio Albums'''
* Hide Your Face (February 23, 1994)
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* [[Heavy Metal]]
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* [[Angrish]]: "Doubt." Much of the song is arguably screamed in Angrish.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: One reason hide's death made such an impression and was such a shock. He seemed to be the least emotionally damaged ex-member of X at the time, had a public face that appeared lively and interested in life, and even seemed to be planning for the future in an interview he did the day before he died.
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* [[Bishonen]]: Often crossing into true androgyne.
* [[Breakup Breakout]]: hide became most famous after leaving Yokosuka Saber Tiger and joining [[X Japan]], and his career only improved more when he went solo from [[X Japan]] to his own career.
* [[Bury Me Not
* [[Careful
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Like Yoshiki, a walking [[Cluster F-Bomb]], with a few musical examples.
* [[Cool Shades]]: His yellow wraparounds. Rather unique to say the least.
* [[Cover Version]]: hide has done work on many covers, but the two most notable are "Ace of Spades" done at one of the Extasy Summits, and "New Rose" at one of his solo lives. "New Rose" is notably [[Covered Up]] since hide's version is likely the second most known to the version done by [[
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: In the worst way possible.
* [[Cyberpunk]] and [[Post Cyber Punk]]
* [[Dead Artists Are Better]]: Sadly so in hide's case. This is probably because of the rise of Visual Kei as well as the internet. Many western v-kei fans are curious and many v-kei artists have performed at the hide memorial summit. they look into who he is and instant popularity. With that said, had he lived he would have probably been as influential as Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, or Elvis. It's obvious the Japanese viewed him that way
* [[Double Entendre]]: From hide's solo career, the song Rocket Dive. The [[Performance Video]] is about spaceflight and in a "spaceship." The lyrics can be about finding hope in life or, to the overanalyst, bipolar mania. They're actually about neither...
** hide's work in general heavily relies on wordplay, double-entendre, and the like. As a result, many translations of his lyrics can be slightly confused.
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** Sometimes it was blonde with a pink or red streak in the early days of the band. Which could be confusing to n00b fans seeing a redhead....and therefore confusing hide and [[Tomoaki Ishizuka|Pata]], who had *entirely* red hair off and on from around 1989 to 1991.
* [[Eek! A Mouse!]]: hide was terrified of cockroaches. One time, he was with [[Yoshiki Hayashi|Yoshiki]] in a hotel room and saw one, which led to both screaming and running around until Tetsu from Lordi.5 (or Yoshiki, in another common telling of the story) killed the roach.
* [[Elvis Lives]] / [[He's Just Hiding]]: Some vociferous and heavily in-denial fans subscribe to a [[Conspiracy Theory]] that claims hide didn't really die and is still alive somewhere. [[Elvis Presley|This sounds familiar....]]
* [[Epic Rocking]]: hide's guitar parts in "Art of Life" and "Rose of Pain" with [[X Japan]], and for almost all of his solo music, though "Oblaat," "Junk Story," and "Dice" are all some of the best examples. "Dice's" vocals are especially epic for the rapid-fire delivery and breakdown.
* [[Frivolous Lawsuit]]: Was in part the subject of one well after his death. In 2010, hide's brother Hiroshi sued [[Yoshiki Hayashi|Yoshiki]] over the use of hide's image in [[X Japan]]. The case was met with the judicial-language version of [[Flat What]] and promptly thrown out of court.
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* [[Guide Dang It]]: Understanding some of hide's lyrics or expressions, or the meaning in some of his songs or [[Performance Videos]].
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Yoshiki and with Pata, also with Sugizo.
* [[Hey, Let's Put
* [[Hot-Blooded]]
* [[Indecipherable Lyrics]]: Much of "Doubt," "Bacteria," and "Fish Scratch Fever." "Dice" is a little better, but the rapid-fire delivery pretty much necessitates having the lyrics there too.
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* [[The Red Stapler]]: Fernandes guitars (pretty much every one of his guitars was a Fernandes), Necromance (a shop in Los Angeles where he tended to buy jewelry and magickal items), and Mild Seven cigarettes.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: This quote on the [[Refuge in Audacity]] article sums up hide's career and life:
''This isn't Getting Crap Past The Radar. This is crashing the crap through the front doors and out the back doors of the radar installation in an armored car with sunglasses-wearing flaming skull decals on every flat surface and a Hieronymus Bosch reproduction on the door, hood-mounted machine guns blazing, Motörhead blasting on the jury-rigged PA system, the tires leaving tracks painting sex and violence on the floor and walls and one arm hanging out of the window making a rude hand gesture.''
* [[Religion Rant Song]]: "Easy Jesus" with Zilch.
* [[Rose-Haired Girl|Rose Haired ... whatever hide identified as.]]
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* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Arguably, his life from 1997 onward. The pressures of his solo career, his alleged drug use catching up to him, the pain of the band that had made him famous and his friendships from said band breaking up, and his increased need for alcohol all pointed to hide's being in somewhat of a downward spiral toward the end.
* [[Sanity Slippage Song]]: "Drain" for [[X Japan]], and solo: "Doubt," "Hurry Go Round," "Genkai Haretsu," "Breeding", "Lemoned I Scream," "Drink or Die," and "Sold Some Attitude"
* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock
* [[Shout-Out]]: The target of quite a few, including a NSFW manga featuring the Yokosuka Pink Spiders, inspiration for Shuichi Shindou of [[Gravitation]], and a partial one (along with Nikki Sixx of [[Motley Crue]] ) in [[
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: hide was a rather notorious tobacco addict, who once posted a blog whining about not being able to smoke indoors in California, and who would occasionally even smoke ''while performing.'' He provided quite the free advertising for his preferred brand, too.
* [[Team Mom]]: Despite his issues, he was, according to everyone else, this for [[X Japan]] while he lived.
* [[Trickster]]: Often seen as sympathetic to the [[Egyptian Mythology|Egyptian mythological deity]] Set/Seth due to his role as such in the art film "Seth et Holth" and due to a few photoshoots on this same theme.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Often as a result of consuming alcohol, and directed at some of the oddest targets. Being a hotel desk clerk was not safe when you had hide staying there....
* [[Virtual Ghost]]
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