- Started and owned a record label, & a chain of stores named LEMONed after his song "LEMONed I Scream" from his 1996 album "Psyence."
- Founder, vocalist, and guitarist for industrial group (Zilch).
- Was lead guitarist of the Japanese rock band X Japan.
- Is a certified beautician.
- Prior to being in X, he was in a band called Saver Tiger, and then after X, formed Zilch with members of NIN, Danzig, and other industrial acts. While in Zilch, his first American crossover band, he started another band in Japan called Spread Beaver which are featured on his final album entitled "Ja Zoo."
- Was deemed the most outragous member of X Japan due to his eccentric style and behavior. He was also the most popular member of the band.
- In 2000, the Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro announced that he was a big fan of X Japan, which helped him out as a politician. It helped him look in touch with the citizens, and as a way to show the citizens that he was a fan, he opened the appropriately named "Hide Museum" in Hide's hometown, near the oceanline. The museum houses all of his belongings from his guitars, music and movie collections, his clothes, things he's collected from all around the world, to his car even. The only music that's playing in the museum is music that he's played on. There's even a cafe named after one of his songs "Cafe Lé Psyence" as well as shops called "LEMONed I Shop" after his song "LEMONed I Scream." The "Hide Museum" remains open to this day.
- Founder & former guitarist of yokosuka SaverTiger.
- Vocalist & guitarist of cyberpunk band hide with Spread Beaver.
- He never capitalized his name. Which is why it's always spelled "hide" instead of "Hide."
- The 'hide Museum' in Yokosuka, Japan, was closed on September 25, 2005, even after countless efforts of fans all over the world to keep it open.
- The "hide Memorial Museum" is now closed as of the 25th of September, 2005 for undisclosed reasons.
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