May 2nd, it's been already 10 years since hide passed away.
I clearly remember that day. I couldn't believe what I saw on the newspaper, and the TV was constantly broadcasting about it, so many fans were gathering around the temple and crying and screaming. My mind was just empty and couldn't understand what was happening on TV....it was just unrealistic.
When I first got to know X, I was simply fascinated by their music. Other than that, something like "teenage crush" thing to me was hide, he was my favorite member. I liked how he act on the stage, I liked his distinct costume and hairstyle, I liked his artistic side as well as his humorous and cute side in his interviews.
In 90s, I was a teenager in the countryside and my parents never allowed me to go to concerts until I became a high school student. (and they hated that I like X and heavy metal)
When hide released his first album "Hide Your Face", he was coming to Hiroshima on tour, the closest (not really close though) city to my hometown. My only one fellow X fan at school asked me to go to the concert together, but my parents never allowed me and I cried and cried...but they just hated the idea of going to conerts of long-haired rockers and the idea of going out at night. I remember that I told them "I may not have many chances to see him as they (X Japan) don't play shows that often" (around that time, they were always recording except playing at Tokyo Dome on the new year's eve). A few years later, when I was a high school student and allowed to go to concerts, he came to Hiroshima on tour again but somehow I didn't go to that concert, I don't remember well why, maybe I didn't have money or something...
So I couldn't see him playing live forever as I missed chances.
It's been 10 years since you departed to the sky...hide, I am sure now you are having fun with other musicians in heaven.