Hideto takarai
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On guitar, hide!
Hideto Matsumoto (December 13, 1964 - May 2, 1998), known as 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. He was also primary A&R for Extasy alongside Yoshiki during its days as the biggest Visual label, and arguably The Man Behind the Man for much of Yoshiki's own work both with visuals and writing for X Japan and with developing the growing label and Visual scene. 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, before joining X, he tended to prefer Hard Rock and Heavy Metal to ballads, notably being on record as saying Endless Rain was the only X ballad he truly liked to pe
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Also known as: Hide
Born on: 13.12.1964
Died on: 02.05.1998
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Known as HIDE (with capital letters), he was a guitarist with X Japan. As a solo artist he was known as hide (hide with Spread Beaver/Zilch). His ideas regarding music, concerts and events were very innovative and original.
In 1996 hide was given a copy of ZEPPET STORE's CD, he was surprised as to how good it was and as a result decided to create his own label "LEMONed". "LEMONed" was coined by hide as the past tense of lemon and pronounced as lemonade. It was based on his ideas, not only for music but for the arts, design, clothing, hair and life style.
Sadly he passed away due to an unexpected accident on May 2nd, 1998. More than 50,000 fans attended to his funnel at Tsukiji Hongwanji in Tokyo.
hide had plans for recording, CD release's, concert tours, including Tokyo Dome and a World tour in USA and Europe in 1998. He was looking forward to these plans and had planned to release "Pink Spider" and "ever free" in May. They were released as schedu
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hide (musician)
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| Birth name | Hideto Matsumoto |
| Also known as | hide, HIDE |
| Born | (1964-12-13)December 13, 1964 Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Died | May 2, 1998(1998-05-02) (aged 33) Minami-Azabu, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1981–98 |
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| Website | hide-city.com |
Hideto Matsumoto (松本 秀人, Matsumoto Hideto, 13 December 1964 – 2 May 1998), better known by his stage name hide, was a Japanesemusician, singer, songwriter and record producer, the lead guitarist of the band X Japan. He was also a successful solo artist, once contributing to the American-based band Zilch. He is regarded as very influential to modern Japanese music.[1] His music can be classified as glam rock and pop. X Japan was one of the main bands to develop the musical movement called visual kei.[1][2]
hide was born at Yokosuka, in Kanagawa Prefecture. He lived and created music in Tokyo and Los Angeles. He died in Tokyo on 2 May 199
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