Когда у меня нет сети дома, я обычно распечатываю какие-нибудь хорошо забытые интервью и читаю их.
Вчера я с удивлением обнаружила, что далеко не все из известных мне интервью с Хидэ я читала!
В общем, энджой:
Question&Profile, Interview with hideПеревод с японского:
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Q: The brand and model of your main guitar?
hide: Fernandes Mockingbird.
Q: Which necessities do you always take with you on tour?
hide: Contact lenses and glasses.
Q: What do you always do to insure the show goes smoothly?
hide: No water or food beforehand.
Q: What do you always do to insure recording goes smoothly?
hide: Drink lots of alcohol.
Q: How long does rehearsal last on average when you're touring?
hide: Takes about 12 hours when we have one, otherwise we do a run through, like for Tokyo Dome.
Q: Do you have perfect pitch?
hide: I don't.
Q: Your grade in music throughout junior, middle and senior high?
hide: Less than a 3 on 5 I think.
Q: Your favorite subject in junior, middle and senior high?
hide: I think...English?
читать дальшеQ: Your least favorite subject in junior, middle and senior high?
hide: Math.
Q: When you were young, how did you mainly come in contact with music?
(1) In which way?
hide: At a friend's house.
(2) Approximately how old were you at the time?
hide: First year of middle high, give or take.
Q: When you were a child, did you have to listen to music as part of an enrichment program?
hide: Never.
Q: How would your ideal TV appearance go?
hide: No run-through, lots of time in between, no showing my face on the screen.
Q: How would your ideal magazine appearance go?
hide: Alcohol, no photos, front cover *laughs*.
Q: Who of the following would you compare yourself to? Nobunaga, Hideyoshi or Ieyoshi? *
hide: Ieyoshi.
Q: Your part time job history?
hide: I did things like moving Yoshitada mannequins.
Q: Your drinking history?
hide: I really didn't like it much until I met Pata and we started drinking together, and things went from there *laughs*.
Q: Your gambling history?
hide: Games like Oicho-kabu in my hotel room. **
Q: Your dating history?
hide: I'm a late bloomer.
Q: Favorite dish?
hide: I could spend days making curry, I like that. I cut the vegetables and all.
Q: What do you want from your fans?
hide: Nothing. Come to my shows, buy my records, that's it.
Q: What do you want from your staff (the office & record company)?
hide: Bring money when we go drinking.
Q: What do you want from the film crew?
hide: Please stop forcing me to jump *laughs*.
Q: What do you want from the lighting crew?
hide: Nothing really.
Q: What do you want from the editor?
hide: Same as above.
Q: Which professional baseball team do you cheer for?
hide: None. I think baseball shouldn't exist.
Q: Any hairstyle changes and the reason behind them?
hide: My hair's always the same.
Q: Have you cried during a show and if so, when and why?
hide: Wish I could say I never have but you'll see me cry on the video that's coming out *laughs*. I'll refer you to that.
Q: What would you do if you had a hundred million yen of extra income?
hide: Think I'd spend it all on horses.
Q: The type of person you like or idolize?
hide: Someone who doesn't get angry even though drunk.
Q: Habits?
hide: I've heard I talk a lot when I drink.
Q: Something you would never want to do.
hide: Aquatic ballet.
Q: Something you'd like to do for your fans.
hide: Tokyo Dome. When's it coming out? (It did in January.) We played at Tokyo Dome *laughs*.
Q: If you were to be in a movie, which role would you want to play?
hide: Dr Lecter. (Silence of the Lambs)
Q: How do you deal with groupies?
hide: They're welcome around.
Q: On the main menu after a live?
hide: Two shots of Nihonshu. ***
Q: What would you be happy to see thrown onto the stage?
hide: Nothing.
Q: What thing or piece of equipment do you find convenient if added to your stage?
hide: An air conditioner.
Q: Which recent world events concern you the most?
hide: None, even with TV I rarely follow them.
Q: The one person who has had the greatest influence on you?
hide: Not that he's an influence, but I wouldn't be sporting the hair I am now if I hadn't met Yoshiki.
Q: Which country do you want to visit the most and why?
hide: None really.
Q: When was the first show you ever went to and which artist?
hide: BOW WOW, when I was in middle high. I was a total groupie.
Q: Which Japanese artist influenced you the most?
hide: BOW WOW.
Q: Which foreign artist would you like to talk to?
hide: Perry Farrell from Jane's Addiction and Porno For Pyros.
Q: Which Japanese artist would you like to talk to?
hide: None.
Q: Which Japanese artist would you like to perform with?
hide: Kanako Higuchi.
Q: Which foreign artist would you like to perform with?
hide: Perry Farrell.
Q: If you were to do a cover, which artist and song?
hide: I can't think of any.
Q: At which age did you discover rock?
hide: First year of middle high.
Q: Where did you play your first show with your current band?
hide: In front of an American military base.
Q: The show that left the biggest impression on you?
hide: Osaka-jo hall. The guards pissed us off so we jumped down and beat them up.
Q: The name of the first song you wrote both lyrics and music for, since your debut?
hide: It's on BLUE BLOOD.
Q: Do you ever listen to your own albums at home?
hide: If I can't sleep at night.
Q: What have you lost by becoming a professional?
hide: My liver.
Q: How do you decide on a list of songs for your lives?
hide: By majority rule.
Q: The brand of shampoo and conditioner you use?
hide: No idea. I like the ones that make you smell like a high school chick.
Q: The number of shoes you own and your preferred style?
hide: No idea. Wouldn't know how to describe them.
Q: What do you look at first, in a girl?
hide: The line of her shoulders.
Q: The age at which you became an adult?
hide: I'll try to be one in the future.
Q: What type of girl do you like? Be specific.
hide: One who drinks, one I'd hit it off with.
Q: Your personal life-long goal?
hide: I wanna disappear without a trace. Completely.
Q: What is the goal you strive for as a band?
hide: The world.
Q: As a band, how long do you take to create a new song?
hide: Way too long.
Q: Which role in the band would you like to play aside from your own?
hide: None.
Q: Are you interested in going solo and if so, what kind of solo would it be?
hide: Something that'll be less trouble than X.
Q: What do you always do when on tour (other than give shows)?
hide: I do nothing but drink.
Q: Where do you always go while on tour (other than your hotel and the concert hall)?
hide: The local bar.
Q: What soudproofing measures do you take when practicing at home?
hide: I just don't play that loud.
Q: Do you have a way of reducing stress?
hide: There's really only booze.
Q: What excuse do you give when you're late?
hide: "I'm sorry."
Q: Living alone or do you prefer the issues and limited freedom that come with living together?
hide: I see no issues.
Q: Your salary (net income)?
hide: Please, pay me.
Q: What do you need before bed to insure a good night's sleep?
hide: Alcohol.
Q: What would you eat if you had 500yen/day to spend on food?
hide: Grape bread and milk.
Q: What do you like best in your miso soup?
hide: Spinach and cabbage.
Q: What is your karaoke repertoire?
hide: I hate karaoke. But I'll sing "toki no sugiyuku mama ni" ****
Q: What are your favorite snacks when drinking? Your favorite entree and meal?
hide: Anything.
Notes:
* Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Ieyoshi Tokugawa
** Oicho-kabu is a card game: en.wikipedia
*** I translated it as "a shot" however, the quantity mentionned is equvalent to 0.18L. So 0.18L times two.
**** "Toki no sugiyuku mama ni" is a song by Sawada Kenji(с)
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