Hideto Matsumoto: Difference between revisions

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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 [[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 [[~~Po P~~]] 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.

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.

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[[~~Los Angeles|~~Los Angeles]]

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[[Useful Notes/Suicide|Suicide]]

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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Yoshiki and with Pata, also with Sugizo.

* [[Hey, Let's Put On a Show]]: The hide memorial summit, as well as his annual birthday shows from other old bandmates.

* [[Hot Blooded]]

* [[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.

* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: "What's Up Mr. Jones" is this to "Drain," hide's last [[X Japan]] song. That said, he owned the music so he just had to change the lyrics...

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* [[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 And Roll]]: Quite possible. Quite arguable. [[Internet Backdraft|And that is all we shall say about that.]]

* [[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 [[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9hcWoltq-c.

* [[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 [[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9hcWoltq-c.

* [[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.