Have you ordered yours yet?

The first press is sold out at CD Japan but they still have copies at yesasia.

Pati Pati October 2006 magazine

A big thanks to Matsuchan (dream_berry ) for scanning the article and concert photos in the Pati Pati October 2006 issue and sharing them on the Hydeist Live Journal community.

(the image above was resized and flipped)

"The whole thing is over..." ~Hyde

Thanks to Eleonora on the ARK for translating Manager FA's diary entry about the last FAITH concert at Ginowan Seaside Park, as well as MC’s by Hyde and company.

She also translated of a couple of Hydeist messages where Hyde says he's decided he definitely likes performing better than recording, talks a bit about the final concert and the upcoming DVD, and tells his fans: "Everybody really arigatou."

T-shirts and stuff!

I've wanted to do this for a long time but finally got around to it. I've created t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies at CafePress.


They say:

You know you’re obsessed with

a certain j-rocker when you

think human bowling should be an Olympic sport

can identify the year of a music video by his hair color

discover your new career goal: be a microphone

replay the line “Dig in and get your hands dirty”

over and over and over

realize fuzzy hats are a legitimate fashion statement

have no idea what beyblades are but think they're

the greatest invention on planet earth

If you're interested here's the link: Mesmerized Café Press Store

Faith DVD

Hyde has announced the release of a Faith DVD, which will include U.S. concert clips. You can preorder it at CD Japan.

It's Region 2, though, so most American DVD players will not play it. Bummer.

EDITED: Found out that if you have a DVD player on your computer you can set it to Region 2. Woot!

On your mark, get set...

OSAKA JOHALL 08.20 MC

Hyde: Once...I came to the Johall to watch Duran Duran...did you know that? Back then...I didn't know very well how to buy tickets, generally you bought them by queuing at the playguide...of course the seat was so far! I couldn't see anything. The only thing I can remember is...John Taylor...that guy that was the most good looking, when he came out he jumped. I thought,"Cool" (laugh). And then I thought if I'd become a pro I'd wanna absolutely jump (laugh).

Fans: Waa~ Jump!!!

Hyde: If I jump you jump too!

Fans: Ooh!

(Hyde took a bit of space and of all a sudden he jumped)

Fans: We didn't get you were about to jump!

More MC's, concert reports, manager Fa diary entries, etc. (thanks to Eleonora and the ARK)

Manager Fa Diary: OSAKA JOHALL 8.19 and 8.20

MC’s and Set Lists

Manager Fa Diary: NAGOYA ARENA 8.13

NAGOYA 6.08.13 Report

New Quiz!

This one is a little tougher, hopefully it's not so tough it's unsolvable.

It's born out of the fact that I always need to come up with secure passwords in my jobs so I started making acronyms of lyrics substitute some numbers for letters, and voila.

Thus, DWITSF can become DW1T5F and I'll always remember that "Devil's Walk In The Strawberry Fields" from Promised Land by L'Arc~en~Ciel.

So, can you identify the following songs from the acronyms of the lyrics?

1. BATTAS
2. TLTYIAIM
3. YABSDTM
4. SFTSIF
5. IJADFD

All lyrics are by Hyde, solo and L'Arc, all are in English within the songs. Good luck!

Thanks to all players!

Hooray for everybody who played the name the PV quiz:

sherlock-nomes
Cloud
asa-chan
Nikki
Amby!

m(_ _)m Me bowing

Here's a picture of Hyde eating!

For the Curious

Most of us have seen this:
Hyde Karaoke Matthew's Best Hits


So how does it compare to the original?

The Checkers, ジュリアに傷心




(The Checkers found by B and her Japanese teacher).

Pop Quiz!

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4.



5.




Identify the PV's above and you'll win...I don't know what you'll win--you're name here, a screen grab of your choice, the joy of being a Hydeholic, but have fun! Icons courtesy of miphileg at Tenshi no Koe.

Hyde--Newsmaker, 7/2006

These are probably up elsewhere, but these are my very own scans from my very first magazine with Hyde. I've had the chance to buy others and resisted, but this was a present from a Japanese co-worker who visited Japan in June. Unfortunately she works in a different office and kept forgetting to bring it in to send me in the inter-office pouch (very official!) plus she wanted to read it first to catch up on the new bands. I finally had to send her an email:
Hey, T! WHERE'S MY MAGAZINE? And in the Smith case, how are the... Yeah, working hard. So scanned in, once again courtesy of office equipment which allows me to focus in on my favorite picture--in the Hyde Hearts Food category:
















Scans of Yuki are up at the sister site.

Yeah, we know you're all bad and sexy...

but sometimes...


you're simply downright...

adorable.

(Thanks to dream_berry for the pics from Hyde's 666 tour. More scans here.)

Tour Goods

This is the official list of "Arena" goods for Hyde's upcoming shows from the Hydeist site.
http://www.hyde.com/news/visitor/arenagoods.html
What is with this Willi Wonka thing anyway?
http://www.hyde.com/news/visitor/mints.html
First the Gummi's and now this?

Tofu interview and concert photos

Here’s the Official Tofu Interview with Hyde that's posted on their site.

Not much new in the way of information and way too many questions that only require a “yes” answer, but they do include pics from all four of the U.S. concerts.

Two of the questions and answers:

Earlier you said that you don’t have many chances to meet your American fans. You came to the Baltimore with L’Arc~en~ciel for Otakon once, but was this the first time you got to interact so closely to your American fans?

HYDE: That’s right. I hadn’t had a chance to interact this closely with them before. So it felt very real this time, I could see the fan’s faces really well so it felt really new and exciting.

So I heard the album. You’ve always had a lot of English in your lyrics, but this time even more of the lyrics are in English. Was this because you were thinking of releasing it internationally, or is this just your style?

HYDE: The music I usually listen to has English lyrics, so it feels more natural for my own music to have English lyrics too. That’s the reason. But as long as my main career is in Japan, I’ll write lyrics in Japanese as much as I can.

I can't learn to read Japanese fast enough

Thanks to matsuchan on the ARK for scanning the Monthly Sky PerfectTV May 2006 article.

A Little Fun

Puzzle

In lieu of anything new, a little fun.

International Music Feed

Haven’t watched all of this, because I’m going to be late for work if I do, but this looks like a fantastic video mixing footage of Hyde at Anime Expo and a separate interview.

(A big thanks to aai on the ARK for posting the link)

UPDATE: I read on the Hydiest livejournal community that there's also some U.S. concert clips in the video! Can't wait to get home from work to see/hear it (I have no speakers on my computer at work).

R&R Newsmaker September 2006, or Hey, he does sweat!

A big thanks to matsuchan for scanning the photos/article in the latest R&R Newsmaker showing fantastic pics from a recent concert.



(found via the ARK)

Soon. I like that word.

Thanks to Eleonora on the ARK for translating Hyde’s recent Hydiest entries.

The LIVEHOUSE 3 comments included thoughts about the U.S. concerts. Hyde said the lives were "really satisfying." And he writes of the crowd response:

FURUTON definition: "Happy like children receiving a cake."
…understand?
One by one they felt it deeply~
Even if it was the first time, receiving such a response was great.
I thought that I'd like to go back there soon.

Cape of Storms sheet music

Thanks to ilfirin elyanwe for scanning the piano sheet music to The Cape of Storms. I think I'll dust off the ivories and give it a try (also I had to copy/paste the last three sheets and resize them to be able to print them out).

It's shounen-ai, er, I mean showtime!

Thanks to Eleonora on the ARK for translating Manager Fa’s diary entries for the recent Zepp Sapporo performances.

It seems that for the concert on 7/22 the band gave the crowd a surprise. When the curtain rose, Hyde was nowhere to be seen but there was Hiroki and Jin kissing!

After a burst of laughter, the curtain was dropped and the announcer said: “Excuse us, pull yourself together and please watch the amazing live of HYDE." Up went the curtain again and there he was.

UPDATE: According to Eleonora’s translations of Hyde’s recent Hydiest entries, he called the kiss a “stupid” idea. It seems, too, it was originally supposed to be Hiroki and Furuton, but since the latter had a cold Jin took his place.

UPDATED AGAIN: Just watched the 2nd disc of Hyde' s Faith DVD set and, um, he seemed to get an awfully big kick out of that kiss. Maybe he later said it was stupid just to smooth some ruffled feathers.

Bridge interview

Future ambition?

Hyde: ...there's nothing planned in the immediate for my solo activity. But when L'arc en Ciel will start, it'd be postponed for later.

Thanks to Eleonora for translating the interview in Bridge magazine.

(Thanks to Rabi for the scans & bailey59 for posting them.)

JaME interview and concert report

Thanks to songstalker for the links to JaME's (J-Music America) recent interview with Hyde and a U.S. concert report.

“I hope that this is just the beginning.” ~Hyde

Tofu has up a transcript of the Anime Expo interview!



(Thanks to Tofu for the pic)

HYDE Me article

From the Nichi Bei Times Weekly July 13-19, 2006
By GREG YANO

Why are Japanese guys so hot? A 15-year-old girl named Pia assured me that I was in good company after a voice from the crowd posed that rhetorical question for the ages. It was last Wednesday, and I was among hundreds of Japanese rock fans, most of them female, who gathered at Slim’s in San Francisco to see one of Japan’s biggest stars, a 5-foot-2 androgynous pop icon named HYDE...read the rest of the article.

(Found via the ARK)