Facts/Rumours about Hide that you might find interesting

- hide's nickname "Pink Spider"

was given to him by Yoshiki when he cut his hair short. hide HATED the name but eventually accepted it and later used it as one of his song titles.

- hide hand painted some of his guitars, it was a his of hobby to paint them.

- hide was not immediately sociable, though it was said that he was a good an caring friend.

- hide liked all animals except cockroaches.

- During X, hide and Yoshiki used to run around hotels and interview people with random questions such as "What color socks are you wearing?".

- hide was once kidnapped before he was famous. A girl involved in some kind of gang disappeared and the rest of the gang found her

diary that had a hair appointment with Hideto Matsumoto scribbled in it. The gang, assuming hide knew something about the girl's disappearance, kidnapped him.

hide said he was very scared and thought he was going to die, but the girl showed up a couple of days later and the gang let hide go.

- hide seems hold the world record for the longest throw of a television set out a hotel window.

- It is rumored that hide was married when he was 22. Also divorced after the rumored birth of a son. However, no one knows for sure because hide never spoke about it.

- hide's tattoo is a mystery to me! It was a dagger, blue, with a rose around it.