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Guitar Battle The following interview is taken in exerpts from the magazine Gigs, Jan 1992. It's a guitar related interview battle between hide chan and Pata chan translated by Iguana, photos from Gigs Jan. 92.

. i - Interview guy h - hide p - Pata . i: By now we got used to the image. hide uses Fernandes Mocking Bird and Pata Gibson Les Paul. p: That's right... h: But the first guitar I ever had was a Gibson Les Paul. p: Unforgivable! Absolutely unforgivable! h: The first guitar I ever had was a Gibson Les Paul Delux in natural wood, I was about 15, I guess. i: What!? A Gibson? With 15?! h: yeah! p: (laughing) Unforgivable! Absolutely! h: Yeah... I became sort of famous in town among young musicians. That guy has a Gibson! It was as if I had been driving a Lamborgini... p: Wow... that means you practiced the scale with a Gibson, didn't you? h: Yes... I coulnd't play a bit. I had bought it because I thought I wanted to learn how to play. I practiced in low cord all the time. I had not even an idea what a high cord was. p: (laughing) Unforgivable! h: Isn't it! I bought it at the American air base, it was used of course and rather cheap. But I actually had no idea what exactly I had bought there.And I exchanged it for another one pretty quickly. i: Goodness... And Pata's first Guitar was a Stratt (I'm not sure about the real name, in Japanese it reads Sutorato) p: Yes, the cheapest model. i: Ah, that's better, for a beginner that's an appropriate instrument. p: Damn right! And it was really the cheapest around! h: (laughing) i: I guess hearing that, the guitar kids reading that will feel safe again! hide's story is just too far a distance. h: (laughing) Like 300 meters ahead of the rest! p: (laughing) i: So when you even started with a Gibson Les Paul, how come you changed to Mockingbird? h: Well, at that time back then I was a big BowWow fan and the two BowWow guitarists used B.C. Rich. i: That's right... that's about 10 years ago now, right? h: I was quite a freak then and went to a lot of their concerts. And just that time Fernandes had a sales of Eagle and Mockingbird. The guy in the instrument shop also said they were damn good and if you connect them to a booster your ears drop off (laugh). I had no idea what a booster was, but anyway I felt the urge to buy that thing. (laugh) Well and ever since then I use the Mockingbird. I still have my first one, I repaired it lots of times. i: But at that time the most famous ones were Les Paul and Stratt and the Mockingbird was not very popular. h: Yeah, whenever someone asks me I always say, Mockingbird is the best! To make a little promotion for that guitar so that it doesn't end up in the store rooms not getting used by anyone! (laugh). i: Back then the B.C. Rich and its copies were also pretty expensive, right? h: Yes, I also own only one real B.C.Rich. p: Ah, that one... h: Yes, that's the real one. i: What? h: I used it on stage all the time, it's a little greenish, but I painted it. I painted it so much that you can't read the maker's name anymore, but it's a real B.C. Rich. I painted it all up to the head so nobody can find out the maker anymore. i: Well but nowadays, thanks to your influence the Mokcingbird has a big revival. h: Yes, I'm quite happy about that. But during recording I also lend Pata's Les Paul from time to time (looking at Pata) That one has a nice balance, doesn't it? p: Oh yes, it has. h: However when I play while seated I always slide backwards somehow. p: Of course you do, that's normal (laugh). h: You get smaller and smaller when you play it while seated, crouching all over. p: I just can't play the Mockingbird, that thing has a strange body. You just can't play it, it's terrible! h: I think I'm looking cool with a Les Paul... however I'm the only one who thinks that. Everybody says I look awful with a Les Paul in my hands. p: (laughing) h: But a Stratt really doesn't fit me, I think. i: The question is who decides whether it looks cool or not. p: (to hide) Well, you DO look awful with anything but a Mockingbird. h: That's just because you've never seen me with any other! i: We were able to confirm that fact when X recently played a balad on Music Station and you (=hide) were playing an accoustic guitar... it really looked awful. p and h: (big laugh) h: Stop it! Stop it! That's not fair! Everybody says I look awful with anything but a Mockingbird and slowly I start to believe it! That's not nice (laugh)! Translator's comment: I just love the way Pata is teasing hide chan... .

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