Q004:
Are all Acid Mothers tracks initially improvised?
A004:
When AMT record, the most basic parts of the tracks are improvised. Or else we decide on a simple theme and then improvise the rest. I dislike writing songs in advance. If you write songs then in order to make them perfect you need to practise. But music is constantly changing, depending on time and place and atmosphere, and attempting to tie it down never breeds good results. Especially when a large group of people is playing together, the more fixed parameters that you have, then the less spiritual communication there will be between the performers, and the end result will be boring.
When AMT play live, there is a rough theme for each song, but we are never sure how it will change from day to day. Playing to different people, in different places, on different days, there is absolutely no point in trying to decide things in advance. That's why tours are always so exciting for us.