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5) 1:00:00~1:15:00
RYO (defspiral : TRANSIC NERVE / bass) : It’s been 15 years since we made our debut. And I think the reason why we can continue to perform as a band is because of the promise we made at that time.
MASAKI (defspiral : TRANSIC NERVE / drums) : We have run without hiatus until now because we think hide is watching us.
RYO (defspiral : TRANSIC NERVE / bass) It’s a sense of mission.
TAKA (defspiral : TRANSIC NERVE / vocal) : Well, he said our music was awesome. The word that he told us “awesome” is more precious than any other word.
MASAKI (defspiral : TRANSIC NERVE / drums) : Even though we couldn’t face him directly, we think this is also a kind of an encounter. So we are doing as a band believing that he is always watching us.
narrator : There are countless musicians influenced by Hide.
caption : June 1996. The production of 2nd album “PSYENCE”
narrator : “I felt that the songs I made last year were crappy. I deleted the parts that would be better to replace”.
narrator : The improvisational parts and the theoretical parts.
I.N.A : Speaking of his double-sidedness, he had an impromptu part and a theoretical part. For example, there was a time when we heard different sounds due to computer data problems. When he heard that, he said, “What’s this? It’s stunning!” And he asked me to analyze the reason why it sounds cool. After this process of analysis, we can have our new techniques available for later use. Along with this theoretical part, he put emphasis on the attitude of “If it sounds good when I listen to it, then I value it as good” ((This is hard to translate. I’m sure it means that “Hide instinctively accepted the music as it was regardless of the theory” It’s simple in Japanese, but I don’t know how to write it in English without any further explanation like this)) Ability to absorb various things into himself was really awesome.
caption : September 2, 1996, The release of 2nd album “PSYENCE”
caption : September 8, 1996, Chiba Marine Stadium LEMONeD presents hide Indian Summer Special
narrator : The event to announce “PSYENCE” was very unique that not only musicians but also various performers gathered.
ㄴ This is the video taken at the event. (POSE)
caption : POSE
HIDE : [♪ POSE] The meaning of today that only God knows is overlapped with yesterday. I’m holding my head that I can’t break. I know. I’ll nail it, dear my sun who never sink. I’m grateful for today and build up stones. Tell me why. ♪
I.N.A : He was quite nervous when he started his second album activity. Because he started with a different concept than his first album. I noticed that he couldn’t hide the nervousness.
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : He has been a person who kept on amazing and entertaining people since he released his first album. But he became different when he released his second album. It was not hide who put band X in the background. Because he established the style of solo singer Hide, the breadth of his music has expanded. He was free from the constraints of his hands and feet.
HIDE : [♪ POSE] : Everythin' POSE. POSE Everythin' POSE.♪
caption : September 4, 1996, hide solo tour 1996 PSYENCE A GO GO
narrator : September 4, 1996, Hide’s solo tour “PSYENCE Go Go” has began.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : He was an expressionist. ((Hide’s colleagues and photographers call Hide “表現者”. This word is not registered in the Japanese dictionary, but I can understand the meaning from the kanji and I think “expressionist” is the most equivalent word for it)) He was not a mere player, but he was the person who enjoyed creating and expressing himself. He would have enjoyed the solo activity for sure.
Kadono Hasashi (RED SHOES/Rally owner) : Unexpectedly, he went onstage without the guitar. I was very surprised.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : He had a very objective point of view. He objectively analyzed the activities of his 1st album and planned the 2nd album activity to be without the guitar. It is surprising that he has abandoned the guitar even though he was originally a guitarist. He was not tied to being a guitarist. At that point, he was already an artist.
Kiyoshi (hide with Spread Beaver) : He rehearsed again and again and began to think that it would be okay to do without guitar.
PATA : (laugh) It’s certainly true. He gradually gave up playing the guitar. (laugh)
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : He was not simply aiming to discard the guitar. I think that he wanted to convey the songs and lyrics clearly.
?? : When he finished his 1st album tour and began working on the 2nd album, I think he’s got the confidence as a vocalist.
I.N.A : For him, that was also a way of expressing himself, rather than he thought “I became a vocalist”.
PATA : The fact that he heightened the key of the songs is the proof that he fell into singing. I’d not thought he was poor at singing until then, but at that time I thought “He became a vocalist” for the first time.
I.N.A : When he was a member of X, he was allowed to be a strange guitarist in the band. But when he was soloing, he had to fascinate people himself. At that time, he found something completely new inside. He found the answer on the way, rather than he had the answer from the start.
Hide : 明日、歌えっかなぁ~ (Can I sing tomorrow?)
ま、いっか (It’ll be okay)
Hide : おはようございます (Good morning)
出てきそうな所に全員配置させて どっから出るか分からないように (Place staffs at the exit so they can not find the exit)
narrator : The skills of the staff also improved responding to Hide’s demands. However, hide’s performances were not created self-righteously. He always valued the staff’s opinions.
Hide : いいよ、やっちゃって (Okay, do it)
staff : Can I do it? Thank you very much.
narrator : He completed his ideas by sharing opinions with members and staffs.
Hide : Even if it takes more time, please place the upper cameras as a peeping angle from the top. Don’t pierce holes. Do not pierce holes for the side cameras as well. Just take it from the side please.
narrator : Making things with colleagues.
caption : 信頼 (Trust - to obtain purpose)
I.N.A : I’m not sure if he knew how to draw people’s talents or he just did it unconsciously. Anyway his ability to bring out people’s talents was amazing.
Kazuko Tanaka (photographer) : He would have been watching everyone on tour. He would have been quietly watching the staff so they didn’t feel like they were being watched by him.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : Hide was able to get people to work for him and follow his decisions. They didn't do it for the good business prospects, but simply because he had that kind of charm. If someone asks if Hide was a man of virtue, you can answer “Yes, Certainly”. Even though he was not a saint.
Kazuko Tanaka (photographer) : He firmly trusted people and entrusted them with work. He worked with the staff that way, so all the staff presented their idea voluntarily.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : He asked the members to come forward. He told the members that they could stand in front of him on stage. He used the same vehicles and hotels as the members.
Takahashi Emi (stylist) : Hide has often told us that the staff are those who does the same things as him. Usually the staff and singer use different hotels. But Hide always stayed with the staff.
caption : Hi-Ho
HIDE : [♪Hi-Ho] I love your phrase. The code broken due to my bad feeling is playing a sweet and sad love song. Like a cartoon with a broken balance, your everyday life is not organized. Happy days & Happy nights full of things I don’t care. I like your world full of wasteful things. Hi-Ho. I like your world full of wasteful things. Hi-Ho. If you don’t mind, let’s take trivial brats with us. Hi-Ho! Getting wet with you, obscene and cool tone... ♪
Kiyoshi (hide with Spread Beaver) : I felt I had lost the initiative. Hide made what he wanted to sound clearly and expressed it in live performances. I was part of his accomplishment, but I felt a little bitter.
HIDE : [♪Hi-Ho] A song that doesn’t really matter, a trash-like scenario. Hi-Ho. I’m dancing to a crappy song. Hi-Ho. The victory of your attraction that is not mixed even though it’s idling. Hi-Ho! I love your world full of only useless things. Hi-Ho. If you don’t mind, let’s dance with useless us. ♪
Tetsu (D'ERLANGER) : It was a whole new world of his. I was surprised enough to scream unconsciously. There was a tremendous evolution between the 1st album and the 2nd album.
PATA : I didn’t think it was unexpected. I knew Hide was into pop.
Seiji Kimura (ZEPPET STORE / vocal) : He wanted to express the feeling of being merged into one. He seems to have wanted to take out the things from his drawer and play music named Hide. His second album properly expressed the feeling.
photographer : Now, let me take a picture. Click!
narrator : Hide’s antenna was extended from Japan to the world. The second solo album and zilch album “3.2.1” were produced almost at the same time.
caption : zilch “3.2.1”
narrator : Ray McVeigh, formerly a supporting member of Sex Pistols. Paul Raven, who was a member of Killing Joke. A band that formed with the two, hide’s challenge to the world, it was zilch.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : I was a little bitter. Because we also wanted to challenge the world stage. After listening to the CD, however, I was convinced that Hide was being already accepted in the world.
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : He said he was very nervous at that time. He said “If this doesn’t work, it’s hopeless. I have a hunch now”.
narrator : However, the release date that hide wanted was lost due to contract issues.
J (Luna Sea) : If zilch’s album was released worldwide just in time, I believe the terrain of the world music has changed. He advanced crushing a multitude of things to reach that position. His effort until then was great.
narrator : Hide discovered the strength of the Japanese through the activities of zilch.
I.N.A : He was confident that he could produce equal results (as westerners). “We Japanese also have the strength to compete with the world”.
narrator : “I don’t want to conceal the fact that it was produced by Japanese”.
6) 1:15:00~1:30:00
Hide : I wanted to let them know the beauty and the fun of Japanese when it becomes music. I believe I won if there is no sense of incongruity despite I set Japanese lyrics to heavy rock on purpose. Whether I sing in Japanese or English, I want to make sure there is no difference in sound. In a word, it is something to deliver. I know that if the listeners are English speakers, I need to make it in English. But I want to let them know that it was originally made by Japanese. I want to share the unique complexity and beauty of Japanese with them.
narrator : Taking the complexity and beauty of Japanese as a basis for songs. "I never think that Japanese isn’t suitable for the tone of rock. I would like to write Japanese lyrics that have a taste of words that even foreigners can feel magnificence". Hide’s will is reflected in his third album, “Ja, Zoo”. Hide and I.N.A embarked on the production of the songs. Hide, who was speeding up, but after a few month...
caption : September 22, 1997, X Japan disbandment announcement
Hiroshi : It was right after the press conference that announced the disbandment of X. Fans who saw TV gathered. I was driving slowly through the crowded fans. I thought hide would open the window and say something to them. But he was not seen in the rearview mirror. Looking back, he was lying in the back seat. “Go faster! How can I show my face to them at this time? Go faster! I’m not able to face them”. He decided not to make fans sad, but he couldn’t keep the promise himself. He said he was really bitter because he betrayed fans.
I.N.A : At the press conference, fans were gathering in front of the hotel. We passed the place and went to Hide’s house. And there we made “Rocket Dive” together. I remember the day. Of course we couldn’t finish it. “INA chan, let’s stop today”. After that he went out somewhere.
narrator : Hide’s regular bar Rally, where he used to drink with his colleagues every night.
caption : Rally
Kadono Hasashi (RED SHOES/Rally owner) : After the press conference, he came to the bar alone. After talking this and that, he finally cried. At that time, Hide found his direction as he began his solo career, so I thought he would finish X and commit to soloing. I couldn’t understand why he was crying. In hindsight, hide had a deep affection for the band.
Hiroshi : For hide, X was the band that couldn’t be better. The band would have been like a family or home to him. If someone said “former X member Hide”, he was very angry. “Not former!”
narrator : After crying for a long time, hide showed a smiling face talking about the future.
caption : December 31, 1997 X Japan The Last Live
narrator : The day after the X Japan The Last Live
caption : January 1, 1998
narrator : January 1, 1998
caption : January 1, 1998 hide with Spread Beaver starts activity
narrator : He started his activity as “Hide with Spread Beaver”.
Hide : [♪Rocket Dive] It’s generally similar everyday, but it’s OK in its own way. However, somehow I look up the sky. ♪
caption : January 28, 1998 “Rocket Dive” Release
Hide : [♪Rocket Dive] Boys & Girls who totally fell into a reverie. They laugh after their mind was read. But it’s not true. ♪
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : Hide said “Rocket Dive” was a song that was once held off. At that time, he needed to encourage the fans who had gone through X’s disbandment, so he decided to work on the song again.
I.N.A (hide with Spread Beaver) : He worked on “Rocket Dive” around the time of disbandment press conference. So the contents of the lyrics reflect the fans that hide saw.
Kiyoshi (hide with Spread Beaver) : I felt his strong intention in order to give pleasure to the fans who were wandering. I think that’s the message of Rocket Dive.
Hide : [♪Rocket Dive] You may feel so empty. There is nothing, which means there is anything. You can go anywhere, wherever you want to go. A soaring rocket, launch before it rusts. ♪
Kyo (D'erlanger) : Until then, he used to make something inside of himself into messages and then work off into the songs. But Rocket Dive gave him a chance for change.
Hide : [♪Rocket Dive] When you start flying, you are a perfect rocket. Come on! space age baby rocket dive. Bungy dive to an invisible place. Into a universe where new stars twinkling. Sail away. ♪
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : I asked him what the “Spread Beaver” means. He then said (hand gesture) “It means this” (laugh) So I said “What? Why did you make such an embarrassing name?” And he said “I wanted to make the most embarrassing name”.
CHIROLYN (hide with Spread Beaver) : When someone used the word “workplace”, then he got angry and yelled “It’s not a workplace!”. (laugh)
Kiyoshi (hide with Spread Beaver) : Hide had a strong desire to have a band. He said “You guys are a band. You are not my session musicians”.
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : He said it was a good idea to give our band a name. He said there’s nothing to change because we were a band from the start.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : We were promoted from our perspective. Until then we’d been supporting players, but we finally became members of the band. I really became a member of the band.
Hide : [♪Rocket Dive] I want to fly to an invisible place. High-speeding you are a moment’s spark ♪
caption : 僕がロックをやるにあたっての名義 (The reason I play rock music)
Hide : I will continue with rock music in the future. And it’s like a master’s mindset. I also belong to Spread Beaver.
caption : “Spread Beaverっていうところに所属しているって形” (I belong to Spread Beaver)
Hide : [♪Rocket Dive] Into a universe where new stars twinkling. Sail away ♪
narrator : “This year, I will fly like a rocket”. Hide said so.
caption : hide with Spread Beaver / X Japan
narrator : hide with Spread Beaver and X Japan.
Hide : I can’t even compare, basically. There was a boss called Yoshiki in the band X. So when I was in X, I freely played the guitar depending on the attraction of Yoshiki. I was very pleased with the title of a “weird guitarist”. But now things are totally different. I have to care everything and have to do a lot of different things. We used to share all the achievements in X, so one-fifth of the power was assigned to me. But now, I have to exert my power 100%. When I get tired, I get tired 100%. When I lose, I lose 100%. When I win, I win 100%.
narrator : Producing of the 3rd album “Ja, Zoo”.
caption : April, 1998 Los Angeles
Hide : Pseudo rock star! (laugh)
narrator : He evolved the experience he obtained through the 2nd album “PSYENCE”.
caption : PSYBORG ROCK
narrator : The word created by Hide, “Psyborg Rock”.
I.N.A : The base of the album “Psyborg Rock” existed in the 2nd album “PSYENCE” already.
narrator : After disassembling each note played by a person, they reassembled it and stacked it up in several layers. Then they mixed their computer-generated music with this. Psyborg rock meant that the tone of human and machine were fused together. The style created with I.N.A.
Hide : Formally I was soloing while I was belonging to X. I was a solo singer without a band. Since I didn’t have members, I became dependent on the machine. When I sing and play the guitar, the computer aids, that was the way I envisioned. We proceeded in that way and eventually reached here.
I.N.A : We already used that method a lot when we worked on the first album. We sampled the phrases of the guitar. Pressing each keyboard key causes a recorded guitar phrase to sound. We made songs by playing this keyboard. We’ve been experimenting with such a variety of things.
Hide : It’ll not change much. Rock music will continue to be played through human groups and machine groups. According to the genre classification in Japan, it’s called “Visual Rock”, but visual rock doesn’t mean music. So I wanted to declare it a “Psyborg Rock”. It’s still questionable if this is a music genre. I’m making noise that it will be fun if this becomes trend.
Eric Westfall (Recording Engineer) : (in Japanese. He speaks fluent Japanese) Hide has an international mindset that is not limited to Japan. He is working in Japan because he is a Japanese. But I think he will be successful enough if he release albums here. When I let my colleagues listen to his music, they were all surprised a lot.
Hide : Overall, it’s not much different from the previous two albums. I think I achieved some of the goals I wanted to achieve in this album. I think this album will strongly show the fusion of my aspiration as a singer and the rock music I wanted to do.
caption : その先に見据えていた未来 (The future spread in front of him)
narrator : One night, only me and Hide drank without other people for the first time. Growth of younger brother. It was the time to achieve recognition as the aide to Hide and to share the plan for the future.
Hiroshi : Hide said “Be my spokesperson so you can speak equally to me”. I was surprised when I heard that.
Enatu Yojo (Security) : Hide would have kept it in his mind. I speculate that he had a harsh whip on Hiroshi because he wanted his brother to be his spokesperson someday.
Hiroshi : Zilch had been trying to do overseas activities since then, hide with Spread Beaver had also been on the rise. “We are going to be very busy because I am aiming for overseas activities”. He said that he couldn’t fight unless he had the carefully selected staff. Until then, Hide was the president and the artist.
7) 1:30:00~1:45:00
Hiroshi : But from then on he decided to quit the president job and concentrate on the artist job, namely hide’s works. He didn’t ask me to be the president, but said “Stand in front of people as my spokesperson”.
narrator : Artist and manager, older brother and younger brother. The person he can show his bare face. “Be my spokesperson”
caption : 俺の代弁者になってくれ (Be my spokesperson)
narrator : Hide almost reached the future he always had dreamed of.
caption : May 13th, 1998. release
narrator : “Pink Spider” was released following “Rocket Dive”. The lyrics have storytelling.
Hide : The “Pink Spider” means a spider that caresses the delusion. Web spinned by spiders is “web” in English. Web is the best way for us to gain information. The internet is an example. That’s how the spider that spewed the web to collect information should live only in the web that he created. The spider who doesn’t know other world is deluding himself that the web he spinned is the source of information. It is a story of a man who is trapped in a delusion and doesn’t know outside. At last, the spider longs for clouds and flies to another world called sky. He admires the clouds and ascends to the sky. In fact, clouds are only a component of the sky. After all, the spider ends up becoming just a part of the sky.
(( In japanese, spider[クモ : kumo] and cloud[雲 : kumo] are homonyms. It’s interesting that kumo(spider) admires kumo(cloud) and becomes kumo[cloud] ))
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : I asked him, “Did you borrow the lyrics from a tale? If not, is there a model of the lyrics?” He didn’t answer. It seemed that he didn’t want to answer, so I tried to change the topic. Then, about 5 seconds later, he said “It’s my story”.
Hide : My new single “Pink Spider” that is scheduled to be released on May 23th.
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Hide : [♪Pink Spider] You put a thread of lies on all sides. You believed your little world was the whole world. You hurt everyone that comes near you. You mistake the sky would be square. “This is all... Everything is like this anyway, isn’t it?” You said that and that’s a lie. Because your loud appearance looked lonely, a bird of paradise talked to you strangely. “Eat butterfly’s wings and come over, to paradise” “Up there, you may do as you please”. (Pink Spider) “I want to go” (Pink Spider) “I want wings”. You ignore the desperate plea of the captured butterfly and are just staring at the sky. “It is not that I hurt you because I hate you. It is just because I have no wings and the sky is too high”
(narration) “Use my wings, Spider. You don’t know the painfulness of eternal flying as of now. But someday, you’ll realize that you’ve been flying only in someone’s hands, and you have called it freedom”
Can’t fly well with the borrowed wings, falling headlong, (Pink Spider) “It’s over now” (Pink Spider) “Even though I can see the sky” (Pink Spider) “It is a failure” (Pink Spider) “I wish I had wings...”
Beyond the barely visible sky, birds are heading south “Let’s fly again, cutting these threads off, with my own jet engine, when that cloud passes by...”
Pink Spider, the sky is calling me, Pink Spider, Pink Spider
A pink colored cloud (as stated above, cloud can also be interpreted as a spider) flows through the sky... ♪
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narrator : Hide came back from LA where he stayed for a long time for promotion. That night, he finished the recording of a TV show and took part in a wrap-up party as always. The mood was heightening with his colleagues who have met in a long time. That night, he talked about the future of “hide with Spread Beaver”. Anecdotes about TV appearance and performance, schedule of tour, things to do as a band, thought about members... “I wanna live as a band member. I wanna keep going with my band”
Yoshiki : I thought someone tried to fool me. So I decided to come back to Japan. I couldn’t believe it. I thought there might be a conspiracy. I hoped it would be a conspiracy.
caption :
1998年5月2日 頸椎牽引を泥酔時に行なったための突然の事故
(May 2, 1998, Sudden accident by doing cervical vertebra traction treatment during drunkenness)
narrator : It was an accident at home.
Hiroshi : After driving him home that day, why didn’t I ever think of going up to his place? The situation would have changed if I did it. On the day of the funeral, I left the funeral hall holding a portrait of the deceased and people were rushing in. I told them repeatedly “I’m sorry, I’m sorry”.
caption : 東京 築地本願寺 (Tokyo, Tsukiji Honganji)
Hiroshi : I told him “We can’t see anymore. This is the last time”. I came out of the funeral hall holding a portrait of him, and the voice of people from everywhere sounded like scream. Compared to their screaming and crying, I thought the portrait was too light.
Hide : [♪Flame] Dear my sun, should I know how low & low? Dear my moon, should I know how low & low? Dear my stars, if you hear the stars’ lamentation. Like a wind, it’s a small sound. Sadness will spread his arms and hug your shoulders. He will wrap you with the gently shaking dance. It’s the flame of sadness. Dear my mind, no matter what misfortunes they are, you need to say hello to them. Dear my hurts, Let’s get rid of the heavy stuff (like a wind) that you are always carrying. If it’s going to be forgotten by getting soaked in the night breeze, widen your stride.
narrator : Even though there wasn’t hide, the third album was completed. The person who succeeded Hide was Hide’s right-hand man, I.N.A.
I.N.A : I wanted to complete the album because I saw the people who gathered in Tsukiji. (crying) Excuse me. Suddenly I recall the memory. (wiping tears) Sorry. I wanted to deliver hide’s songs to the people somehow. I will never forget the scene forever.
Hiroshi : I was about to complete the album “Ja, Zoo” on my responsibility. I can’t make music, so I asked I.N.A to complete the album in order to deliver it to people. I wanted to help people who have cut themselves off from the world and those who have been unable to hear Hide’s music since his death.
narrator : The way to completion of “Ja, Zoo”
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : We had to complete the unfinished album. Because that’s what hide left.
I.N.A : There were songs in draft while there were the finished. Among them, only the recorded songs could be completed.
narrator : Many people voiced their approval or disapproval on the news that “Ja, Zoo” would be completed without hide. It was a very hard work both physically and mentally. Until now, hide has been making a decision. But from now on, I.N.A is responsible for everything.
8 ) 1:45:00~2:00:00
I.N.A : The hardest part was to make a decision. Because the person to decide has disappeared. The recording began just a week after the funeral. I was mentally really messed up.
caption : I.N.Aの才能を, すべて俺のためだけにそそいでくれ (Use all I.N.A’s talent only for me)
narrator : A week before “Ja, Zoo” release, hide’s colleagues started a live tour of 12 locations around the country.
caption : October 22, 1998. Yokosuka Arts Theater
hide with Spread Beaver TOUR appear !! “1998 TRIBAL Ja,Zoo”
narrator : The beginning was Yokosuka, the root and shrine of hide. But there were a lot of conflicts between fans, staffs and members about the performance.
I.N.A : What would hide want to do? Wouldn’t he want to play on his tour? Someone said, “Let’s make it happen”.
CHIROLYN (hide with Spread Beaver) : “Let’s tour. We have to do it”. But no one was able to start.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : The members and staffs were people who were with hide when he was alive. When we gathered, I felt as if the air sank to the ground. Honestly it was extremely painful.
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : There is no case that you go on tour without hero. We couldn’t expect what would happen. We didn’t figure out what to do even though we agonized over it for a long time. But we concluded that it’s better to do than not.
Kiyoshi (hide with Spread Beaver) : Hide was gone that way. But we didn’t think like “It’s over. Dismiss!”.
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : We concluded that it is better to go on tour both for hide and for the fans.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : Unlike heretofore, hide can’t guide direction anymore. Therefore we wondered that who should play hide's role? I.N.A had to do it. Who would do it if it were not I.N.A? Who else? He had been with hide, so we thought it would work well.
Hiroshi : It was “Ja, Zoo” tour without hide, so I had to ask a lot of things to I.N.A. But I.N.A said he couldn’t do everything because he was not hide.
I.N.A : So I worried about what I should do.
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : We were so nervous until we started. How should we do?
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : JOE said we were the ones that hide chose, so let’s play as a band. That was a kind of motive.
Hide : [♪Rocket Dive] High-speeding you are a moment’s spark. Come on! Space age baby rocket dive. Spread your wings and you fly. Adios to yesterday I just waited♪
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : As soon as the live started, everyone there was crying. We cried and all the audience cried too. Everyone cried sadly. Is there such a concert?
CHIROLYN (hide with Spread Beaver) : Stress was beyond belief. The relationship between the members became strange. The staff also seemed to be out of their mind.
Kiyoshi (hide with Spread Beaver) : On second thought, it was a little reckless. But I think it was good to do. We started in order to finish it but it does not end. It’s not over yet. We’re still on that extension.
Hiroshi : From the beginning of the last live day for “Ja, Zoo”, I kept apologizing for the audience. I was grateful to those who came, but I was much more sorry to the audience.
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : As the tour went on, the audience enjoyed it. Thanks to that, the members were also healed. If the tour went on like the first day, members’ hearts would have broken. In hindsight, we tried not to distinguish between those who were fans from the old times and the general audience who came to the concert. If we split the two, we had to accept hide’s death.
I.N.A : I was being distressed from start to finish. But it was meaningful that we laughed, even though the laughter was against our will.
narrator : They thought about the future, not the memorial service.
hide : [♪Hurry Go Round] The crazy season is overflowing endlessly. ♪
caption : Released on November 21, 1998. The 3rd album “Ja, Zoo”
narrator : Completion of “Ja, Zoo” full of agony and conflict.
hide : [♪Hurry Go Round] When the leaves of the ivy widely spread their roots, the scenery seen in the eyes passes away without sound ♪
I.N.A : What I want to know and listen to as now is “Ja, Zoo” that I made with hide. I really want to listen to it.
hide : [♪Hurry Go Round] I don’t need to be saddened by the kicking of memory, but that doesn’t mean I’m happy ♪
I.N.A : I still think that it’s good enough. At that time, it was enough and it still is.
hide : [♪Hurry Go Round] There is no way to figure out, only the clarity went out yesterday ♪
Kiyoshi (hide with Spread Beaver) : We can’t change the fact that hide passed away. I think finding out how we should live after that is the homework left for us. I’m not sure if I could continue to be a musician unless I met hide at that time. I lived a really good time with him.
Takahashi Emi (Stylist) : I really appreciate him for training me this much. I came up with him doing everything in my power for fear of being left behind him.
J (Luna Sea) : Honestly, I still do not believe hide has passed away. I feel as if he’s here forever, and will say “Let’s do well” again.
Tetsu (D'erlanger) : He showed a lot of fun things. He showed wonderful things as well as fun things. It was love. He would have been able to act if it was only on stage. But he was the same offstage.
Kadono Hasashi (RED SHOES/Rally owner) : The people around hide, the members, the staffs and everyone who was connected by hide all had the same mind. The bond as colleagues became stronger.
Hiroshi : If hide was alive and if I had grown even more, we would have dared to jump into the world stage. Hide was preparing to advance into the world. I’m going to live life to the full. I will move on carrying hide’s name on my shoulders, carrying him on my back.
PATA : He will continue to play the guitar vigorously. He will form a band again in the other world. He will. Ah, I talked about the other world.
hide : [♪Hurry Go Round] Let’s meet in spring. ♪
caption : また春に會いましょう (Let’s meet again in the spring)
narrator : 17 years have passed since the day. There are always flowers sent by fans in front of his tombstone. 50,000 fans attended the farewell ceremony. It was the funeral that was attended by the greatest number of people in Japan's postwar history.
caption : 東京 築地本願寺 (Tokyo, Tsukiji Honganji)
narrator : Tsukiji temple “Honganji” where the funeral ceremony was held. One side of the main hall is filled with hearts toward hide. People’s minds have reached from not only Japan but all over the world.
Yoshiki : Thanks to hide, I can be as I am now. I try to let him hear the voice of fans no matter which venue I go to. Sometimes I speak aloud “Please let hide listen to your voices”. I try to spread the greatness of hide to the world. I think that’s the role given to me.
caption : December 10, 2014
narrator : The 3rd album “Ja, Zoo” is still going on. On December 10, 2014, “Co Gal” was released in a period of 16 years. This song was supposed to be on “Ja, Zoo”.
hide : [♪Co Gal] As talking the prepared words in a shy pose, let’s go with the shaking breast fixed. Scattering the winds of the dark world with a rapid jet engine ♪
caption : 当時、hideが残したデモ音源にはラララ~でメロディを歌ったものしか存在しなかった為、再現不可能と思われていた。(At that time, the demo tape left by hide was considered to be impossible to reproduce because only humming remained)
時を経てYAMAHAが開発したボーカロイド歌声合成技術を元に (Over time, based on vocaloid which is a voice synthesis technology developed by YAMAHA)
I.N.Aの挑戦が始まった。。。(I.N.A’s challenge has begun)
narrator : I.N.A collected hide’s voice for four months.
caption : “hideが残した子ギャルの歌詞 (Lyrics of Go Gal left by hide)”
caption : hideの全ての曲のボーカルトラックの中から、1音1音の声を拾い組み合わせていった。それは困難かつ孤独な作業だった。(I picked up every single voice out of the vocal tracks of all hide’s songs and combined it. It was very difficult and lonely work)
I.N.A : When I make hide’s music, I feel like I’m with him. I just want to convey it to people who like hide.
hide : [♪Co Gal] I don’t mean it. Until the day it collapses, I’ll fuck you and jelly. Even if everything is disappeared, let’s keep hugging ♪
caption : hide愛用のGuitar (Hide’s favorite guitar)
caption : MASATO (defspiral / guitar)
caption : Joe (hide with Spread Beaver / drums)
narrator : Co Gal was completed with a great restoration technology. “Ja, Zoo” was completed after a long time. But didn’t he have an empty heart when his work with hide was over?
I.N.A : The important thing is not changing. The work with hide is the same. There is no big difference between now and the days when hide was alive.
narrator : “I’m still with hide”. The song was completed as an extension of this thought.
hide : [♪Co Gal] The tragedy in your eyes is like watching a video. ♪
narrator : Completion of “Co Gal”
hide : [♪Co Gal] I give a kiss to the part of you where there is no love. I give a kick to your tomorrow without a dream. ♪
narrator : I want to keep delivering hide’s music, beyond generations.
caption : 崩れ落ちる 日まで (Until the day it collapses)
2人 焼けおちるまで (Until two of us burn down)
最後の カウントは (The last count is)
hide : [♪Co Gal] Until the day it collapses, until two of us burn down, the last count is ♪
9) 2:00:00 ~ the end
narrator : Hide’s wings that were called spoiled still keep flapping.
caption : JUNK STORY
● It’s an end credits from here.
caption : hide
hide : I haven’t enjoyed enough yet!
caption : 松本秀人 (Matsumoto Hideto)
HIDE
hide : [♪Junk Story] There are so many things I want to see. The beautiful scenery I have seen before. ♪
Yoshiki : I’ve been to Disneyland with him. Both of us were very noticeable. Hide said “We are more eye-catching than Mickey Mouse”. Even though it’s not so meaningful. Aren’t you going to make the second episode of “Junk Story”? (laughs)
hide : [♪Junk Story] Sid Vicious dances at 25 o’clock. The black discs turning round and round always show dreams. The lame guitar sound ♪
PATA : Is it really okay for this kind of talk to spread? (laughs)
hide : Bang! Bang!
Joe (hide with Spread Beaver) : Everyone was naked. “We can’t go outside naked!” (laughs)
Kiyoshi (hide with Spread Beaver) : I heard that the last song’s title he left was “Go Gal”. What the hell was he thinking? (laughs)
hide : If you are healthy, enjoy live performances. You will be healthy.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : Haha, I made a mistake.
CHIROLYN (hide with Spread Beaver) : I thought “Are they really idiots?”
Tetsu (D'erlanger) : Hide let me listen to his 1st album and asked me to play 4 songs of them. But I had a schedule already and I couldn’t do it. There was “Tell Me” among the songs. Afterwards, when I picked a song to play with Kyo for the hide memorial album, I said I wanted to play “Tell me” even though it was too late.
Kyo (D'erlanger) : Because of that reason, I was pretty pressured.
Seiji Kimura (Zeppet Store) : His head was big and hats were not fit.
Yamada Hiroyasu (classmate) : I often went to hide’s house to hang out. Back in the day, there was something like telemarketing. Hide dialed the number and asked to deliver poop. (laughs)
SEXX GEORGE (LADIESROOM) : I wanted to give him a bashing saying “It’s too fast, bastard”. However, I received bashing 50,000 times by him. (laughs)
Miyagi Hiroshi (Hair & Make Up Artist) : Once he was on stage with “regent cut”. ((regent cut : Japanese call pompadour hairstyle “regent cut”)) He said he was embarrassed, so I turned his hair back to his original style. He said he was embarrassed because everyone looks at him.
hide : What the hell is this? (laughs)
Hiroshi : I was being beaten when I was in elementary school. I ran to the front of my house, then hide came out and mounted on the fellow and beat him. He was fighting well.
I.N.A : We got teased so much at the time of the 2nd album tour. People said it’s the mascot for brothels. ((I don’t know what I.N.A means by “the mascot during the 2nd album tour” in this sentence. Anyone knows?)) I don’t go to brothel. They teased that it’s an angel character for the nationwide prostitution business. I really wanted to stop. I begged hide not to do that because my parents was supposed to come the day. Then hide said “That’s none of my business”. (laughs) I really hated him. It’s all memories. Wouldn’t you hate him to hear that? (laughs) Please don’t edit this talk out.
hide : [♪Junk Story] Still visible Junk Story, inside of you Junk Story, turning around and around Junk Story, inside of me Junk Story, still visible Junk Story, inside of you Junk Story ♪
hide : Bring it on!
hide : This is hide. See you next week.
- The End -
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