

They created and produced their original rock sounds to break the barriers between Japanese music and Western music. RIP) in 1995 and invited many session musicians to play with them. PROFESSIONALS) and Paul Raven(ex.Killing Joke/PRONG who sadly passed away on Oct.27th, 2007. zilch was formed by hide, Ray Mcveign(ex. In July, 1998 the album “3.2.1” by zilch was released. His 3rd album, which was released on the final day of this tour, sold 1,600,000 copies and it became the most memorable album of his life as a rock star. The tour “hide with Spread Beaver appear!! ‘1998 TRIBAL Ja, Zoo’” was held at 14 venues with over 50,000 fans coming to remember hide. His 3rd album “Ja, Zoo” was completed by I.N.A, co-producer and the other members of hide with Spread Beaver, the memory of hide the driving force behind the album. They were released as scheduled out of respect for his love of the music. He was looking forward to these plans and had planned to release “Pink Spider” and “ever free” in May. Hide had plans for recording, CD release’s, concert tours, including Tokyo Dome and a World tour in USA and Europe in 1998.

More than 50,000 fans attended to his funnel at Tsukiji Hongwanji in Tokyo. Sadly he passed away due to an unexpected accident on May 2nd, 1998. It was based on his ideas, not only for music but for the arts, design, clothing, hair and life style. “LEMONed” was coined by hide as the past tense of lemon and pronounced as lemonade. In 1996 hide was given a copy of ZEPPET STORE’s CD, he was surprised as to how good it was and as a result decided to create his own label “LEMONed”. His ideas regarding music, concerts and events were very innovative and original. Known as HIDE (with capital letters) he was a guitarist with X JAPAN.Īs a solo artist he was known as hide (hide with Spread Beaver/zilch). December 13th, 1964:Yokosuka, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan BIOGRAPHY JAPANESE
