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Hide (musician)

The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is hide.

Hideto Matsumoto (December 19, 1964-May 2, 1998), or hide (spelled with lowercase h), how he was widely known, was a Visual kei Japanese rock musician, one of the two guitarists of X Japan and founder, composer, singer and guitar of hide with Spread Beaver .

He died on May 2nd, 1998 of a not clearly explained self inflicted strangulation (some cite impaired judgement by alcohol consumption as the reason). The famous hide museum in Japan honours him, there you can see many of his costumes, guitars, pictures and other related things.

Biography

Death

hide passed away May 2, 1998. He was drunk that morning. A girlfriend brought him to bed but when she went to check on him an hour later, he was not in his room. He had hanged himself with a ripped towel in his bathroom apartment, having tied the towel to the doorknob. He was barely alive when the ambulance arrived, but he later died in the hospital. Hideto was only 33. Four fans around the country attempted suicide when the news were made public, two of them succeding.

Speculation about his death

Some say it was an accidental death, citing he was drunk. Also, there was no suicide note, and he was known to do silly stunts to try to scare people and this could have been a stunt gone wrong. However, some fans would rather see it as a purposeful incident because it's better to think that he made the choice to end his life. They don't want to think that it was accidental. So some, it hurts more to think that he didn't want to die, that it was just an accident. As of today, what really happened it is not completely clear.



Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45