(5:07~19:00)
CUTT : He kept changing but he did not change.
Kiyoshi (hide with Spread Beaver) : He was incredibly deliberate.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : No matter how much time passes, the secret will not be released. No one can solve the mystery of Hide. He has known it himself.
PATA (X Japan) : I told him, "Why should I play your songs again?" (laugh) I played with anger.
Hide : [♪Ever Free]
The first melody which is disappearing. Where is this headed? Your freedom, which others call shit, is still sleeping with having their wings folded. Ever free, get out of this night. Can I fly freely when I open my eyes? Ever free, where to, free? ever free ♪YANA (Zeppet Store) : When he came up with a new idea, he developed it like painting over the idea. Will there be another such person?
Hide : [♪Ever Free]
Fu Fu ever free in your sight. ♪caption : Yokosuka, Dobuita Street
Hide : There was a place called Dobuita Street where a lot of US soldiers came. I was there almost everyday. I learned all about alcohol, tobacco, and women over there. Back in the days, all the stores on the street were playing rock music. I got interested and went in the store like this. Even if I was scared, I kept going there. And then, I made friends over there and made a band.
narrator : Hide's first band "Saver Tiger". He played the guitar in the band and entered the musician's path. On December 13, 1964, Hide was born. The Home town is Yokosuka. The real name is Hideto Matsumoto. Hide's brother and the personal manager Hiroshi Matsumoto. Currently, he is the representative of "Headwax Organization", which is founded by Hide.
Hiroshi : My three year older brother... to him, his stuff was his stuff, and my stuff was also his stuff. Even if we buy the same things, he said, "Your thing can be broken, my thing is very precious". He painted his own kit ((I don't know the equivalent word in English. They call this "pla model / plastic model" in Japanese. A kind of toys that can be assembled )) beautifully. And he assembled mine in an instant, and threw it away. I hated him. He was a bad guy. (laugh)
Yamada Hiroyasu (classmate) : His drawing skill was not the level of elementary school students.
Hiroshi : When he wrote, the sentences were very amazing. One day, he did my homework instead. And I was called to the teach and asked, "What books do you read?"
Hide : In my childhood before I aimed for rock music, I was a fat boy. I don't remember what my fat percentage was. It was when I was in elementary school. I came back from lunch and they let me run because I was fat.
Hiroshi : Hide said, "When I was called to the playground, there were only fat students there. They let us run". He kept telling me that he felt very humiliated at that time.
narrator : The boy, Hide, became interested in guitars.
? : My brother played a folk guitar at that time. I also learned the basic scale. I taught it to Hide.
Yoneyama Yuji (classmate) : "This is do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do". We started like that.
Hide : I started dreaming of playing the guitar, recklessly.
? : He pretended to play the guitar holding a tennis racket.
Hide : Back then, I was at the tennis club even though I was fat. I was pretending to play the guitar by holding a tennis racket. Then suddenly my mother came in and I was embarrassed.
? : As far as I can remember, Hide said that his grandmother bought him a guitar.
HIde : When I was in 9th grade, I asked my grandmother crying. "Grandma, I want to have Gibson Les Paul" (laugh) Thus, when I was in junior high school, I sang hit songs medley holding an electric guitar.
Higaki Takaya (classmate) : He used to sing anime theme songs. Hide's favorites were "Mazinger Z", "Devilman", and rock version of "Sazae-san". When the song to perform was decided, he laughed and played.
Hiroshi : He found that his guitar sound was different from the sound coming from the TV. Then he said, "Why is this different?"
Hide : I didn't have an effector, so there was no change in the sound. But I believed that the sound would be different if my guitar skills improved.
Hiroshi : I opened the door of his room and saw what he was doing. Hide ripped the back of the guitar, and was applying glue on it. I asked him if the guitar was broken. He replied that the sound didn't change. I said "It looks to be broken. Is it Okay?", then he said "Get out of here".
Hide : One day, it was noisy so I was wearing headphones. I threw the headphones out and left the room, then, I heard some sound. I went back to my room to see if I turned off the recorder, and I found it sounded from the headphones. At that moment, I thought "This is it! Everyone did it this way, even Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore and Ace Frehley are doing it this way!" After that, I played the guitar by raising the volume wearing headphones. From then on, I didn't even touch the amplifier, and just broke six or more headphones. (laugh)
narrator : Learning guitar became an opportunity to meet rock music.
Hide : One day in junior high school, my friend let me listen to KISS's music in his house. But I didn't like KISS's makeup. Thus, I borrowed the tape, but I just put it away. Then I had nothing to do, so I listened to that tape. After listening to it, I was shocked, "What's this?" It was the first time I was hit by a thunderstorm of music. I started thinking that I was born for rock. From then on, my Rock'n'Roll life started.
narrator : Later, Hide left these words.
caption :
“あの時の君から離れなければ, その答えは見つからないと思っていた”
“If you do not get away from you of those time, you will not find the answer”narrator : You can't find the answer unless you stay away from yourself in the past. It took quite a long time for the idea to change. Time to reach an unimaginable future for an ordinary boy.
Hiroshi : He stared at an audience who didn't focus on the concert. Then he suddenly jumped into the audience and beat him with a guitar. I was shocked to see it.
narrator : He kept replacing members to raise the band's level. Conflict and anguish arose because of the members to be removed.
? : I heard he was suffering from members problem.
Hiroshi : While strictly managing the members to be professional, he seemed to be sad every time he changed members. Sometimes he sobbed in the room.
narrator : Then the moment the best members come together came. It was vocal "Kyo" and drummer "Tetsu".
interviewer : How was Hide?
Kyo : Hide's way of working is...
Tetsu : Hide revealed himself in his work.
Kyo : That's true. He came with raw ideas and completed them with the people in the studio.
Tetsu : He was improvised.
Kyo : He didn't like the typical things. He bothered us to do this and that. Actually I didn't understand why he had us do that, but after doing it, I could understand him.
? : He was a follower of intuition.
narrator : The three major garbage bands in Kanto region that influenced Indies scene. Saver Tiger was one of them. Also, X, which greatly influenced Hide's life.
Yoshiki : Hide was biting raw meat at a livehouse. I thought, "Who is that weirdo?" I didn't want to get very close with him. But he was very cool. He was chewing raw meat and was very sensual. I already knew at that point that he and I would be together.
narrator : One of the three major garbage bands in the Kanto region, DEMENTIA.
Shigeru GEESS Kosugi (the president of HOWLING BULL / ex-DEMENTIA vocal) : He had a very fancy makeup, but his personality was quite humble. But when the performance begins... Hide's aura was awesome. I thought, "This guy is crazy".
narrator : At that time, Hide said :
? : Hide said, he hated himself. That’s why he created the present Hide. And he said that he was worried about whether he could produce Hide well as he imagined himself or not. He said that Hideto Matsumoto is desperately producing Hide to be more beautiful than anyone.
? : He already knew that way at that time.
caption :
“松本秀人がhideをプロデュースする”
“Hideto Matsumoto produces Hide”narrator : Hideto Matsumoto produces Hide. The idea has been reflected in subsequent creative activities. It's the evidence that there was a character of Hide, back then. Hide is well-known as an artist with double-sideness.
caption : “二面性” “double-sideness”
narrator : "Hideto Matsumoto produces Hide". Does that way of thinking lead to the two sides of Hide?
caption:
頭蓋の中 飛び回る
僕に似てる 2匹のムシが
囁けば 逆らえず
僕は飼われてるのか? (Breeding)
Flying around in the cranium
Are two worms that resemble me
When they whisper, I can’t refuse.
Are they breeding me? (Breeding) I.N.A (hide with Spread Beaver) : The relationship between Hide and Hideto Matsumoto was perfectly that of two sides. He didn’t mix the two together, right? The two couldn’t be one.
Kanno Hideo (photographer) : He had as many shadows as light. He might have had a frustration and a conflict that he could not express even though he was a creator.
I.N.A (hide with Spread Beaver) : He was a perfectionist but he was not perfect. Thus, he seemed to have always aimed for perfection.
CHIROLYN (hide with Spread Beaver) : He was a very delicate person. So I had to keep distance from him to be friends with him. Even if you get acquainted with him, you will not understand the whole world of Hide.
I.N.A (hide with Spread Beaver) : He was not a rock star whose personal life was a mess. He took care of very trifling things. Then when he drank, he used to become violent.
Kiyoshi (hide with Spread Beaver) : He was spoiled, but sincere at the same time. (laugh) He was double-faced inside.
Takahashi Emi (Stylist) : There were two worlds within him. He had a part to enjoy, but sometimes he acted like it was calculated.
D.I.E (hide with Spread Beaver) : “Two-sided” is a word for Hide.
I.N.A (hide with Spread Beaver) : Hideto, the boy, remains intact. And Hide was born as a new personality. Hideto Matsumoto had rock star Hide inside. We shared a lot about music. But I feel like I did not understand Hide in a human way. The more I think about it, the more I feel it.
narrator : Hide’s character was a mask that fascinated people. But this may had been the cause of the conflict of mind at times
caption :
“自分をコントロールしてる奴がいるっていうことは、小学校の頃からずっと感じていた。単純に、裏と表ということじゃなく”
“I knew that there was someone who was controlling me from the time I was in elementary school. It’s not simply about the inside and the outside.” ================================================
The stylist who appears at around 18:00 was Hide’s girl friend. She was the first person who discovered that Hide died.