Rocket Dive

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Field	Value
name	Rocket Dive
cover	Rocket Dive.jpg
caption	Cover of the 2007 re-release.
type	single
artist	hide with Spread Beaver
album	Ja, Zoo
released	January 28, 1998
recorded	Late 1997
genre
label	Universal Victor
writer	hide
prev_title	Hi-Ho/Good Bye
prev_year	1996
next_title	Pink Spider
next_year	1998
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"Rocket Dive" is the eighth single by Japanese musician hide, the first to bear the hide with Spread Beaver name, released on January 28, 1998. It reached number 4 on the Oricon Singles Chart and was the 33rd best-selling single of the year. It has been certified double platinum by the RIAJ for sales over 500,000 copies.

The song's name and intro are a homage to Kiss' "Rocket Ride". Its music video was directed by Shūichi Tan, who went on to direct the video for hide's next single, "Pink Spider".

"Rocket Dive" is the last single to be released in hide's lifetime, as it was released four months before his death on May 2, 1998.

Reception

"Rocket Dive" reached number 4 on the Oricon Singles Chart. By the end of 1998 it sold 690,220 copies, making it the 33rd best-selling single of the year. The single was certified gold by the RIAJ in February 1998, platinum in May 1998, and double platinum in February 2020 for sales over 500,000.

It was used as the opening theme song for the 1998 anime series AWOL -Absent Without Leave- and appears on its soundtrack.{{cite web | title = AWOL Original Soundtrack | work = cdjapan.co.jp | language = Japanese | url = https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=MVCH-29016 | accessdate = 2013-04-27

Track listing

Personnel

hide – vocals, guitar, bass, arranger, producer
Joe – drums
Eric Westfall – mixing engineer, recording engineer (at Victor Studio)
Ritsuko Baba – assistant engineer (Victor Studio)
Yasushi Konishi – recording engineer (at Studio Somewhere)
Kazuhiko Inada – recording engineer :Personnel for "Rocket Dive" per Ja, Zoo liner notes.

Cover versions

The song was covered by Tomoyasu Hotei on the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits. As the album was produced following hide's death, Hotei added some lyrics, including the line "Saraba akai kami no eirian" ('Farewell red-haired alien') at the end.

Tetsuya Komuro remixed the song for his 2007 album Cream of J-Pop ~~Utaitsuguuta~~, which was released under the name DJ TK.

It was also covered by Megamasso on the compilation Crush! 2 -90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Songs-, which was released on November 23, 2011 and features current visual kei bands covering songs from bands that were important to the '90s visual kei movement.

defspiral covered it for their 2011 maxi-single "Reply -Tribute to hide-", which also included the band's interpretations of three other hide songs. hide had signed the members' previous band, Transtic Nerve, to his label Lemoned shortly before his death in 1998.

It was covered by And for the compilation album Counteraction - V-Rock covered Visual Anime songs Compilation-, which was released on May 23, 2012 and features covers of songs by visual kei bands that were used in anime.

The track was covered by R-Shitei for the Tribute II -Visual Spirits- tribute album, which was released on July 3, 2013.

Amiaya and Kishidan recorded versions for Tribute VI -Female Spirits- and Tribute VII -Rock Spirits-, respectively. Both albums were released on December 18, 2013.

Luna Sea covered "Rocket Dive" at the second day of their rock festival, Lunatic Fest on June 28, 2015.

The song was covered by Dragon Ash for the June 6, 2018 Tribute Impulse album.

References

(2020-05-02). "映像で音楽を奏でる人々第16回［バックナンバー］ 90年代から"カッティングエッジ"を追求する丹修一 hide、ミスチル、サザン……名だたるアーティストのMVを手がける映像作家". [[Natalie (website).
"hideのシングル売り上げランキング". oricon.co.jp.
"What's This Year - Music 1998". interq.or.jp.
"Japanese album certifications". [[Recording Industry Association of Japan]].
''Ja, Zoo'' liner notes, 1998-11-21. Retrieved 2013-01-27
"hide TRIBUTE SPIRITS". amazon.co.jp.
link. JB Press. (2023-05-02)
"Cream Of J-POP ~~ウタイツグウタ~~". [[Amazon.com.
"Reply -tribute to hide-". cdjapan.co.jp.
"V-Kei Anime Song Cover Compilation "Counteraction!" and MJP TV to Collaborate! Live Talk Program with Asai Hiroaki and the Artists Participating!". musicjapanplus.jp.
"Two hide Tribute Albums to be Released Simultaneously!". musicjapanplus.jp.
"hide Tribute VI -Female SPIRITS-". cdjapan.jp.
"hide Tribute VII -Rock SPIRITS-". cdjapan.jp.
(2015-07-31). "LUNA SEA Celebrate 25th Anniversary With Star-studded LUNATIC FEST.". [[MTV]].
(2018-04-14). "hide最新トリビュート盤にHISASHI × YOW-ROW、西川貴教、MIYAVI、GRANRODEOら". Barks.

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