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hide Memorial Day Special ～hide満載！24時間ニコニコ生放送～ - ニコニコ生放送
アルバムを作る度に
「この曲を聴かせたら、なんて言うかな」
・・とか、けっこう妄想します。
According to the wonderful candy_gutter on LJ, this translates pretty much as:
“Whenever I’m making a new album, I often space out wondering ‘if I had hide listen to this song, what would he say?’.”
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@cuttjapan AND @TAKA_defspiral Uploaded (…Together!! (笑）)
one of hide’s most popular songs:“ROCKET DIVE” to Youtube
It’s an acoustic version with both of them singing and playing guitar.
Let this Rocket fly around the globe and be a tribute to hide as well as an appreciation for today’s talented musicians in Japan!
Way to go guys! -
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![It was in January 1998 when we were shooting the promotional video for ROCKET DIVE at Kurosawa studio when I said, “hide, I think this song will sell well!!” He answered, “Do you think so? I spent so much money,” and said, “Last year was not so good, but this year is awesome!! For MIX LEMONed JELLY in August, I’ll make use of the internet and have a dress code. Please look forward to it.” It was really strange for me, as I have never done it before, but I gave him a New Year’s gift. Then he said, “What~! For me?” and beamed like a kid. That smile he had still remains with me today, in my heart.
—Noriko Shouji [Reporter]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3fnpsKrkb1qab0buo1_500.jpg)
It was in January 1998 when we were shooting the promotional video for ROCKET DIVE at Kurosawa studio when I said, “hide, I think this song will sell well!!” He answered, “Do you think so? I spent so much money,” and said, “Last year was not so good, but this year is awesome!! For MIX LEMONed JELLY in August, I’ll make use of the internet and have a dress code. Please look forward to it.” It was really strange for me, as I have never done it before, but I gave him a New Year’s gift. Then he said, “What~! For me?” and beamed like a kid. That smile he had still remains with me today, in my heart.
—Noriko Shouji [Reporter]
(Source: a-pinkspider)
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![I’m often asked to speak about my memories of hide, and every time I worry about what I should write as I have too many memories to fit in to the spaces that they provide! From around the debut of X until in the middle of the 90s, I played with hide often. We met in interviews, but went out drinking together often. We went to hot springs, amusement parks, driving, etc. We probably drank together about five out of seven days a week. We would often laugh and say, “Why are we out together all the time? We are not family nor are we lovers!” I remember that clearly. PATA was always with us too. I think hide was a person who felt lonesome very easily. Even when we started drinking with a few people, he said, “Let’s call xxx!” and he called various people, and so many people would gather without much notice at all. He didn’t care if it was midnight or people were working. He wouldn’t hang up the phone until we said, “OK, I’ll go,” so we named his invitations the ‘devil’s phone’. Then the people would try to go home saying, “I have to work tomorrow,” but he didn’t let us go home easily. He tried to stop us from going home using every trick in the book, like hiding our coats or shoes. That hide was really innocent, like a naughty child. However, once he started his creative activities, he stopped calling us suddenly. He said it was ‘national isolation’, staying in the studio all the time and concentrating on creating music without seeing anybody. I think he was very good at using on and off work properly. He enjoyed it fully when he played, and he worked with all his might when he created music. I think you can see his attitude in every part of his music. There is warmth even in the lyrics of his most cynical songs, which I think shows how his nature was projected in his music.
—Ooshima Akemi [Writer]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3fp444Rp31qab0buo1_r1_500.jpg)
I’m often asked to speak about my memories of hide, and every time I worry about what I should write as I have too many memories to fit in to the spaces that they provide! From around the debut of X until in the middle of the 90s, I played with hide often. We met in interviews, but went out drinking together often. We went to hot springs, amusement parks, driving, etc. We probably drank together about five out of seven days a week. We would often laugh and say, “Why are we out together all the time? We are not family nor are we lovers!” I remember that clearly. PATA was always with us too.
I think hide was a person who felt lonesome very easily. Even when we started drinking with a few people, he said, “Let’s call xxx!” and he called various people, and so many people would gather without much notice at all. He didn’t care if it was midnight or people were working. He wouldn’t hang up the phone until we said, “OK, I’ll go,” so we named his invitations the ‘devil’s phone’. Then the people would try to go home saying, “I have to work tomorrow,” but he didn’t let us go home easily. He tried to stop us from going home using every trick in the book, like hiding our coats or shoes. That hide was really innocent, like a naughty child.
However, once he started his creative activities, he stopped calling us suddenly. He said it was ‘national isolation’, staying in the studio all the time and concentrating on creating music without seeing anybody. I think he was very good at using on and off work properly. He enjoyed it fully when he played, and he worked with all his might when he created music. I think you can see his attitude in every part of his music. There is warmth even in the lyrics of his most cynical songs, which I think shows how his nature was projected in his music.—Ooshima Akemi [Writer]
(Source: a-pinkspider, via pinkmachinecomplex)
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honeyblade.tumblr.com: I’m so tired to see everyone talking/arguing about hide’s death...
I’m so tired to see everyone talking/arguing about hide’s death theories and i don’t think May 2nd is the right day to talk about that. Remember him and stop wondering about how he died ; i asked myself this question over and over for many years, i was obsessed with finding the truth but the fact…
Hear hear. Let’s just agree that whatever the cause, it was an incredibly sad and untimely death, then let him rest in peace and remember him kindly (and always with a smile).
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Taiji - Dear Friend (for hide) (by todehikun)
“White cloud floating over the edge of the horizon. I’m absent-mindedly looking at it. Erase my sadness by the spray of the wave. Erase my voiceless screaming by wild waves. I can see his smile in the sky. That is the message from him, “I’m flying in space freely”. I had such a dream. I just wanted to make a journey that explores the spirits with you. I just wanted to make a bridge that connects my sound and your sound. To my dearest friend.”
This is still one of my favourite tributes to hide - both the music and words by Taiji and the slideshow that goes with it. It’s additionally poignant this year with the loss of Taiji last autumn.
I’m not a religious person of any stripe, but sometimes it makes me smile to imagine they’re jamming together somewhere - laughing and drinking and playing bad jokes on one another without a care in the world.
I don’t think either of them would want people to be sad for their passing, but rather to remember them for their music and their passion.
But I guess you don’t always get what you want, either in life or in death.
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Here’s to you, hide. We love you.
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I never knew a man who is loved as much as he is.
I never knew a man filled with as much talent as he was.
I never knew a man who was as passionate as he was.
hide is so great that we will never be able to go further than him.
I’m making music just to be able to get closer to him." -
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![honeyblade:
May 2nd, 2012 : 14 years
No matter where i am nor what i am doing, i could never live through this day unaware of its meaning. I never imagined losing someone could possibly hurt that much. Fourteen years, and the pain has not dulled even one merciful sliver. In movies, you cry at their funeral, you look through old pictures and think of what it was like when they were alive, and then you move on and live your life without them. I’m living my life without you, but I haven’t moved on. I cried at your funeral, too. I stood there, in front of your casket, crying in silence. Did you see me? Did you see how pathetic you made me? Did you finally see me break, and fall, and learn? Despair holds wisdom. Pain can teach you a lot. I went to your grave today and i brought you blue roses. I haven’t forgotten you, hide. I can’t forget you. I hope you’re happy now, hide. I really do.
[second part is different and in japanese]
大切な日。 毎年 08:52 目を閉じて、想う。 HIDEちゃんの所へ行ってきました。。。 今日の東京天気は雨です。5月2日に雨って珍しいかも？ 今日は我らHIDEの命日。あれから１４年経つけどHIDEを想う気持ちは何一つ色褪せてない。 今日は本当涙もろくなる日。 あれから14年。 HIDEがこの世に存在してくれたこと 今、幸せですか？ あの笑顔をもう一度見して下さい。 これからも生きて行きます。また春に逢いましょう。。。 たくさんの幸せを貰いました。 ありがとう。 心から、本当に、ありがとう。そして、これからもずっと、、、
ずっと。
～無限の愛をこめて](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3eccsQ1l71qats83o1_500.jpg)
May 2nd, 2012 : 14 years
No matter where i am nor what i am doing, i could never live through this day unaware of its meaning.
I never imagined losing someone could possibly hurt that much. Fourteen years, and the pain has not dulled even one merciful sliver. In movies, you cry at their funeral, you look through old pictures and think of what it was like when they were alive, and then you move on and live your life without them. I’m living my life without you, but I haven’t moved on. I cried at your funeral, too. I stood there, in front of your casket, crying in silence. Did you see me? Did you see how pathetic you made me? Did you finally see me break, and fall, and learn?
Despair holds wisdom. Pain can teach you a lot.
I went to your grave today and i brought you blue roses.
I haven’t forgotten you, hide. I can’t forget you.
I hope you’re happy now, hide. I really do.
[second part is different and in japanese]
大切な日。
毎年 08:52 目を閉じて、想う。
HIDEちゃんの所へ行ってきました。。。
今日の東京天気は雨です。5月2日に雨って珍しいかも？
今日は我らHIDEの命日。あれから１４年経つけどHIDEを想う気持ちは何一つ色褪せてない。
今日は本当涙もろくなる日。
あれから14年。
HIDEがこの世に存在してくれたこと
今、幸せですか？
あの笑顔をもう一度見して下さい。
これからも生きて行きます。また春に逢いましょう。。。
たくさんの幸せを貰いました。
ありがとう。
心から、本当に、ありがとう。そして、これからもずっと、、、ずっと。
～無限の愛をこめて -
Wearing quite a bit of pink today… And bringing the Pink Punks to work with me.
![a-pinkspider:
“OUR PINK SPIDER @ 柏PALOOZA終了！今年もアツかったぜ！” -TAKA [Defspiral]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3lf6xROqs1qab0buo1_500.jpg)
