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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 [[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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* [[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 Onon the Lone Prairie]]: While hide has a grave in Japan and his funeral was held at the Hongan-Ji temple, his ashes were scattered off the Santa Monica Pier and Marina Del Rey Pier in [[Los Angeles]].
* [[Careful Withwith That Axe]]: "DOUBT/Tell Me." Epic metal screaming in that performance of "Doubt." Also, on backing vocals for "Sadistic Desire" with X.
* [[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 [[Guns N' Roses (Music)|Guns N' Roses]]. "Light My Fire" by [[The Doors]] is also somewhat notable.
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: In the worst way possible.
* [[Cyberpunk]] and [[Post Cyber Punk]]
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* [[Dye Hard]]- hide's hair is either red or pink.
** 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! Aa 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.
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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 Onon a Show]]: The hide memorial summit, as well as his annual birthday shows from other old bandmates.
* [[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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* [[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 Andand 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.
* [[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.
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