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Update: May 2nd, 2005
It's May 2nd, the anniversary of hide's death. Please, take a moment of silence to remember hide. He deserves it.
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It's been eight years since your death, and a lot has changed. hide, your museum is being closed. I don't know if that's for the best, maybe it's good because maybe you just want to be left alone after all these years, left alone so you can sleep peacefully finally. I know you deserve it. It must be annoying being called upon every five seconds by some fan in a different country every time. Know what's the saddest? I know how you felt. I know why. It might just have been egged on by the alcohol, but you were bound to commit suicide somewhere along the line. The alcohol was eating away at you. You left to become a musician, and after 17 years of making awesome music, Toshi left and your whole life crumbled. You had started a solo career, and there were talks to remake X Japan in 2000, but a remake could never make up for the original. You'd lost your enthusiasm, the solo career was nothing but tedious. You had lost your LIFE when X Japan disbanded, because that WAS your life. There was nothing left to live for and maybe that was just the alcohol talking, but that's what you felt. That's what I would have felt, regardless of the alcohol. I know people disagree with me, but I think you and I know that alcohol ruins people. After a certain point of obsessively drinking it, you just can't go back. There's no getting sober unless there's divine intervention or something, and maybe you could have looked elsewhere for an escape, like religion, or something, but you didn't, so yelling at you and saying you should've become whatever religion and that would've saved you is really pointless, since we don't know. You committed suicide and I understand that. My respect for you is no less. I would never have been able to last that long. Toshi was beautiful at your funeral, even though he couldn't face the people attending and his voice cracked; you could hear his sobbing. Pata and Heath looked miserable, and Yoshiki was numb. Are you happy about being given back to the Earth? Having your ashes sprinkled into the ocean? That was amusing, watching one of your friends dump a bottle of alcohol into the ocean after your ashes. I just wanted to tell you thank you. You're one of the reasons I refuse to drink alcohol, and I hope my life will be better because of that. I don't want to become addicted and have my life screwed up. Thank you, because you are the one who changed me from my "I'm so goth" lookout to admitting I liked bright colors and I liked being happy, and cutting myself and thinking about suicide wasn't everything. You, and God, and my friends, pushed me in the right direction. I've gotten help now, and my life is much better because of it. hide, whether you or anyone else cares or believes it, I love you. In a way, you saved my life, and to me, that means everything. Even after your death, hide, you have a huge impact. And whatever happens to your things, I hope they are respected and loved as much as you would have wanted them to be.
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Everyone, please take a moment of silence, whether it be 5 seconds to 10 minutes or whatever, to remember hide. He was an amazing guitarist, a musical genius, and just a wonderful person to be around, which is evident in the many interviews and DVDs of hide and X Japan. He's gone now, and it's been 8 years since his death, but enthusiasm for his music has not lessened at all. His fans are still going strong and supporting him with all their hearts, and another person every few minutes or hours or days turns into another fan of hide. Even if his museum withers and dies, he will always be remembered. Our memory of him will NEVER wither, and we will always respect him. He brightened the world, he brightened Japan, he brightened Asia and Europe and maybe I'm exaggerating by saying this, but his death made the world a little darker. hide, you are loved dearly by thousands of people. We will always love you, and I'm sorry you had to die the way you did.
8 years today.
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This is my fansite, shrine, whatever, to honor Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, the greatest guitarist the world has and ever will have seen. The musician that rocked Asia and Europe, the musician that touched and inspired his fans, the legendary musician whose death devastated an entire nation, an entire continent, an entire world. A musician who's so much more than just a musician. hide was not just a pretty face or someone who was good at singing and playing music. He was an individual with a heart, an individual who loved his friends, his family, and his fans. We love you, hide, and we always will. We will -never- forget you.
To navigate, click the links on the left. hideBIOGRAPHY takes you to a biography of hide, hideDISCOGRAPHY takes you to the discography and lyrics of his songs, hidePICTURES takes you to various pictures of hide and his guitars, hideROTATION is a rotation of his songs, and hideMEMORIAL is something I wrote in memory of hide. It's a... memorial.
The contact link is a link to contact information for me, Letters to hide is just a bunch of letters I've written to him (for my own purposes, read if you want), and About has more information about the site, hide's career with X-Japan, anx X-Japan (it also offers mp3 downloads of songs by X-Japan)
NOTE--->Please note that the songs are for sampling purposes only and should be deleted from your computer in 24 hours. I am not responsible for what may happen if you do not delete them. Please only download one song at a time, and do not direct link. Thank you.
RIP hide... May 2nd, 1998. We'll always remember.
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