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Also referred to as the “Alien” in the WeRock x Rockin’f hide Book (Slide 7); seen in performances of Scars from the Dahlia Tour Final as well as The Last Live (which I still have not watched in its entirety…it remains too emotional for me).  I find the “hide’s comment” from Pinky Promise (Slide 6), “Try drawing the alien from the album ‘PSYENCE’ cover, using any technique you like,” very curious ~ I always thought that thing was just a skeleton…like a keychain you would find for a dollar at a CVS during Halloween.  But hey ~ if it was an alien in hide’s world, then so be it.  Skelalien. 😸👽💀  I was also reminded of the rendering that appears in the Psyence album booklet, on the page with the lyrics to Damage and LEMONed I Scream (Slide 9).

Random aside with Slide 8...I am guessing hide did not acquire permission (or did not bother asking for permission) for product placement of the two items on the left which are turned just enough to obscure their respective labels. All I can discern from the top left item is perhaps the word "chewable"...and MAYBE the blue container below it is cocoa powder, if I had to pull from the "oa" alone. I don't know. And was Casper the Friendly Ghost impaled?? 😬👻

Found this while organizing a new pile of X Japan clippings.

Note: the first image is a better view of the table of contents page from part 1

Doujinshi by Akira Y, Ranmaru N & Akira T

This post is to partially make amends for an error in the Army Panther post. I appended to the text on that one but I could not edit the photo gallery. The image of the doodles and master/slave stickers I had miscredited to the Army Panther ~ I admittedly got muddled because of the layout with the 2 guitars in the Closet Collection book (Slide #2 here...it is easy to see how that mistake could be made) and I had honestly forgotten associated details from Pinky Promise as well as the WeRock x Rockin'f hide Book.

There are TOO MANY photos of hide with this guitar that I love...admittedly the hardest part for me when pulling this together was choosing one as the opening slide...but I shall certainly not complain if something like that is the most difficult decision of the day (or any day for that matter). 😸❤️✌️