History Music / HidetoMatsumoto

* MyNaymeIs: It's spelled hide and pronounced hee-day in reference to his solo career. Do not capitalize it there, even if ThatOtherWiki does. In regard to his X Japan career, on the other hand, it is pronounced the same way but written in {{ALLCAPS}} as HIDE.

* BarBrawl: hide, along with Taiji and Yoshiki, were the biggest troublemakers in regard to the fighting and damage that XJapan caused in its earlier days. If running around a hotel fighting with the desk people for no reason at all can be considered under this trope....

** 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 [[TomoakiIshizuka Pata]], who had *entirely* red hair off and on from around 1989 to 1991.

* ElvisLives / HesJustHiding: Some vociferous and heavily in-denial fans subscribe to a ConspiracyTheory that claims hide didn't really die and is still alive somewhere. [[ElvisPresley This sounds familiar....]]

* MotorMouth: YES. So very yes. Enough that it might make one wonder how he can be so speedy.... *cough*

* OutlivedItsCreator: Zilch is a straight example (it outlived both hide and Paul Raven), but a more meta example would be pretty much all of hide's career and artistic output. As an example, the "Pink Spider" musical just opened in Japan....

* UnstoppableRage: 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....

* PsyClone (May 22, 2002)

* RefugeInVulgarity: The "Dice" live with the squirming nude men and women in cages and "Natural Born Onanist" from his solo lives, the lyrics to "Doubt," the live (and the album cover and possible meaning) of "Rocket Dive," "Fuctrack #6" with Zilch...
** Which has led to some (hopefully) unintentional creepiness, when fans go overboard, especially on exposing their kids to his stuff way too early. For example, [[TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior the Youtube video of the 3 year old singing "Rocket Dive."]] Do not look it up - there is not enough BrainBleach in the world.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Yoshiki and hide could be a type of this.

UsefulNotes relevant to hide: UsefulNotes/{{Punk}} | UsefulNotes/HeavyMetal | UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} | UsefulNotes/LosAngeles | UsefulNotes/{{Suicide}}

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. [[YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]] went into a deep depression and many years of mourning for his closest and best friend, and some fans [[LoveMakesYouCrazy committed suicide]] at the thought of being faced with a world without him. [[EpilepticTrees Many theories were and still are debated]].

* EekAMouse: hide was terrified of cockroaches. One time, he was with [[YoshikiHayashi 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, or Taiji, in another) killed the roach.

* FrivolousLawsuit: Was in part the subject of one well after his death. In 2010, hide's brother Hiroshi sued [[YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]] over the use of hide's image in XJapan. The case was met with the judicial-language version of FlatWhat and promptly thrown out of court.

* EekAMouse: hide was terrified of cockroaches. One time, he was with [[YoshikiHayashi 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.

* ShoutOut: 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 MotleyCrue ) in VideoGame/ChronoCross http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9hcWoltq-c.

* DoubleEntendre: From hide's solo career, the song Rocket Dive. The PerformanceVideo 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... a look at the cover will tell you what the song is actually about. http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rdhide_8880.jpg (Possibly NSFW)

* DoubleEntendre: From hide's solo career, the song Rocket Dive. The PerformanceVideo 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...

UsefulNotes relevant to hide: UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}
UsefulNotes/HeavyMetal
UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}
UsefulNotes/LosAngeles
UsefulNotes/{{Suicide}}

Being a former hairdresser and stylist, hide was one of the most truly visual members of XJapan, 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.

UsefulNotes relevant to hide: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Punk Punk]]
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/HeavyMetal Heavy Metal]]
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Japan Japan]]
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LosAngeles Los Angeles]]
[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Suicide Suicide]]

* BuryMeNotOnTheLonePrairie: 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 LosAngeles.

* DeadArtistsAreBetter: 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

* ElvisLives / HesJustHiding: Some vociferous and heavily in-denial fans subscribe to a ConspiracyTheory that claims hide didn't really die and is still alive somewhere. [[ElvisPresley This sounds familiar....]]

''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.''

* {{Trickster}}: Often seen as sympathetic to the [[EgyptianMythology 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.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The hologram in X concerts could be considered a constructed variant of this. Could be played straight also, if you believe some of the stories from some fans who claim to have seen/channeled/otherwise met hide's soul somehow. [[CloudCuckooLander Of course]] [[FanGirl they/we could]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy all be]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grief batshit]]. [[MindScrew Or maybe]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel they/we aren't.]]

* TheJimmyHartVersion: "What's Up Mr. Jones" is this to "Drain," hide's last XJapan song. That said, he owned the music so he just had to change the lyrics...

* ShoutOut: 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 MotleyCrue ) in ChronoCross http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9hcWoltq-c.

On May 2, 1998, hide was found in his bedroom hanging from a doorknob. 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. [[YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]] went into a deep depression and many years of mourning for his closest and best friend, and some fans [[LoveMakesYouCrazy committed suicide]] at the thought of being faced with a world without him. [[EpilepticTrees Many theories were and still are debated]].

* hide with Spread Beaver: [[TomoakiIshizuka Pata]], Kiyoshi, [[DaijiroNozawa D.I.E.]], Chirolyn, Ran, I.N.A., Joe, KAZ Iwaike

* {{Angrish}}: "Doubt." Much of the song is arguably screamed in Angrish. And it is awesom

* AnythingThatMoves: hide's professed sexuality and approach to it, in [[IncrediblyLamePun a nutshell.]]

* BiTheWay: [[FlameWar Arguable]], but hide never made a big deal about his sexuality one way or the other and seemed to be of the "all sex is good sex" persuasion.

* ClusterFBomb: Like Yoshiki, a walking ClusterFBomb. For a musical example, Fuctrack #6.

* CoverVersion: 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 CoveredUp since hide's version is likely the second most known to the version done by Music/GunsNRoses.
** He also covered "Light My Fire" by TheDoors.

* DoubleEntendre: From hide's solo career, the song Rocket Dive. The PerformanceVideo is about spaceflight and in a "spaceship." The lyrics, to the [[TheIngenue mind-numbingly ignorant of anything sexual]] can be about finding hope in life or, to the overanalyst, bipolar mania. They're actually about neither...

* DudeLooksLikeALady: To some people on some occasions.

** Though he appeared shirtless and covered in bugs in Zilch's Electric Cucumber PV...

* EroticAsphyxiation: One of [[FlameWar many]] [[EpilepticTrees theories]] on how he died.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Back when he was alive, hide blogged about a pimp trying to pick him up when he went outside of the studio to smoke.
** This was because the pimp in question saw hide loitering on the pavement whilst in possession of pink hair, and decided that this meant that he simply ''had'' to be a rentboy. So, not the most flattering example, really!
* EveryoneIsBi: hide always had almost too many showgirls around his lives and the "hide no heya" performance in XJapan shows, his Dice performance on TV was notorious for being squirming male and female naked bodies, and he was not in any way reluctant to engage in {{fanservice}} [[YaoiGuys with his male bandmates.]]
* FanService: Of both the straight and gay varieties.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Dice live on TV. Naked people squirming around sexually in cages wasn't exactly primetime material in Japanese TV at the time it was done.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Yoshiki and with Pata, also with Sugizo. [[TransparentCloset the heterosexuality]] [[AmbiguouslyGay is slightly in question here.]] Maybe.

* IntercourseWithYou: "Eyes Love You," "Beauty and Stupid," "Fuctrack #6," "Natural Born Onanist," "Rocket Dive," and many more.

* MyNaymeIs: It's spelled hide and pronounced hee-day. Do not capitalize it, even if ThatOtherWiki does.

* RapunzelHair: Just LOOK at the pic. Though he too had gotten rid of it by 1997.

* ShoutOut: The target of quite a few, including a hentai manga featuring the Yokosuka Pink Spiders, inspiration for Shuichi Shindou of {{Gravitation}}, and a partial one (along with Nikki Sixx of MotleyCrue ) in ChronoCross http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9hcWoltq-c.
* SmokingIsCool: 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.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Yoshiki and hide could be type B of this.
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* TheAlcoholic: hide tended to drink, drink a lot, and Bad Things usually tended to happen when he became drunk. Whether it was starting or getting into fights, sustaining a skull fracture and other injuries in a fall accident, wrecking hotel rooms, alcohol appeared to make him a trouble magnet. Sadly, it also played at least some part in his death.
* {{Angrish}}: "Doubt." Much of the song is arguably screamed in Angrish. And it is awesome.
* {{Angst}}: What caused hide's own angst and what made it worse are debatable topics almost ensured to start a FlameWar over rumors and truth. What is unquestionable is that by dying, he managed to become a massive source of angst for a lot of people....

* ArtisticStimulation: hide was a heavy drinker, possibly an alcoholic, though no one really knows "why" outside of speculation, and this inspired his solo songs Drink Or Die and Lemoned I Scream among others. There is also a video clip where he's obviously enjoying some good weed. There are rumors of his using/abusing other substances, but these are best not discussed online unless one enjoys InternetBackdraft.

* BarBrawl: hide, along with Taiji and Yoshiki, were the biggest troublemakers in regard to the fighting and damage that the band caused in its earlier days. If running around a hotel fighting with the desk people for no reason at all can be considered under this trope....

* CreatorBreakdown: In the worst way possible. :(

* TeamMom: Despite his issues, he was, according to everyone else, this for XJapan.

Having been a hard rock guitarist with Yokosuka Saber Tiger and Dementia before joining X, he tended to prefer HardRock and HeavyMetal 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 ElectronicMusic to {{pop}} to HeavyMetal to {{goth}}ic {{industrial}}, [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly 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.

[[MyNaymeIs hide]] was the lead guitarist and one of the major creative members of XJapan from 1987 until 1997. He is co-credited, often, with Yoshiki for beginning VisualKei as an artistic movement, and while working with Yoshiki, encouraged him to sign the band LunaSea 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.

* HollywoodThin: As a result of being bullied for being overweight as a child, hide had ongoing body issues.

** Zilch: Ray [=McVeigh=], Paul Raven, Joe Castillo, I.N.A.

* Ja, Zoo (November 21, 1998) (posthumous release)

* Tribute Spirits (May 1, 1999)

* ScientificProgressGoesOi: hide's solo career. The album Psyence and the Psyence A Go Go tour would be the TropeCodifier for his use of this, but Bacteria, Atomic M.O.M, and much of hide's stuff from 1995 or so onward before Zilch would fall under this. JustifiedTrope in that he *was* one of the first true cyberpunk musicians.

* DoubleEntendre: From hide's solo career, the song Rocket Dive. The PerformanceVideo is about spaceflight and in a "spaceship." The lyrics, to the [[TheIngenue mind-numbingly ignorant of anything sexual]] can be about finding hope in life or, to the overanalyst, bipolar mania. They're actually about neither...IfYouKnowWhatIMean.