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| Name: Hideto Matsumoto |
| - Guitarist - Backing Vocals - |
| Birthday: December 13th 1964 |
| Birthplace: Yokosuka, Japan |
| Sign: Sagittarius |
| ~ Know him better... |
| ~ The name hide should be pronounced 'he-dey'. ~ When hide enrolled in primary school, he was overweight and teased by his classmates, and was an outcast. ~ hide started to like metal music in Secondary II when he listened to KISS. ~ He bought his first guitar in Secondary III, it was a Gibson guitar and his classmates gave him the nickname 'Gibson'. ~ Next, hide went in a costume school to study. ~ When he was close to graduate, he received a phone call from a certain Yoshiki, leader of X, asking him to join his band. ~ At the end of 1995, hide met with a sick fan suffering from Peripheral Nerve Regenerative Disorder. There's only few people in the whole world with a serious case of this disease. ~ In 1996, hide registered itself for a bone marrow transplant donor, again for that fan girl which he stays in contact with. ~ During his prestigious years with X Japan, hide also produced some solo albums. ~ hide holds the world record for the longest throwing television... from a hotel window. ~ In 1997, hide has two times been seriously injured; firstly he has severly broke his skull and then broke his ankles... he was drunk. ~ In the same year, X Japan announced its dissolution, hide disagree... ~ After X Japan, hide performed with Zilch, then Spread Beaver. ~ On May 2nd 1998, at 7H AM, hide is found dead, hanging to a doorknob in his apartment's bedroom... (To learn + about that, see hide memorial). ~ hide does spell his name with a lower case 'h'. (Don't ask me why though..) |
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| Hi hide fans, hide shopped in my store on and off for about 3 years. He was very nice and polite (and cute!). He was interested in unusual items like animal skulls and antique medical bottles, but he really loved any skull jewelry. We have jars full of different skull beads out on the counter. He would come in and string up his own style of necklace. I think he made about 6 different kinds ! He was a well rounded artist with excellent taste ! Watching him would stimulate me to be creative. I always looked forward to him coming in and I am sorry he is gone. ~ Nancy Necromance in Hollywood --- (See it in the X~links division) |