Jam Breakdown - 4/9/21 All I Need

All I Need is one of Goose’s most consistent jam vehicles. With a catchy hook and two distinct jam sections, it has filled every possible setlist role with ease and delivers every time.

Of course, there are a handful of AINs in the 2021 Jam of the Year bracket, but this breakdown highlights the 4/9 rendition from the Suwannee Rising festival. The first big jam of the first show of 2021, this All I Need really set the tone for the rest of the year and boasts one of my favourite Goose segues ever into the set-closing Jive Lee.

It has a tough first-round matchup against the 11/19 Hot Tea, but it just might pull out the upset…

All timings are per Nugs/Bandcamp release. Unfortunately, no video circulates of this jam.

0:00 – That filthy Suwannee tone

0:16 – Jeff is up in the mix, sounding great

1:27 – Growly organ

1:46 – Bright piano solo from Peter

2:12 – Disgustingly good bass fill HOO BABY

2:59 – Peter forgets to switch Nord from piano to organ oops

4:01 – Rick screams into his solo, soaring major-key jam develops

4:34 – Rick brings jam intensity down and begins to depart AIN proper

4:50 – Snare is BOOMING

5:02 – Peter on arpeggiating piano lick as Rick sprinkles in some soft guitar licks

5:28 – Jeff’s shaker is subtle but awesome

5:53 – Like a nice sunny afternoon in the spring

6:07 – Awesome snare fills from Spuds

6:25 – Rick starts hammering more chord-based licks

6:47 – Jam takes a dark turn

6:58 – Still Rick-led but now minor-key

7:12 – Dirty tone on full display

7:40 – Jam hits peak

7:54 – Skronky build

8:00 – EXPLODES back into AIN jam

8:14 – MACHINE GUN

8:20 – Big peak!!

8:45 – Final chorus

9:07 – So much ENERGY

9:27 – Second jam begins, Spuds on cowbell

9:40 – JEFFREY AREVALO ON THE CONGAS

9:52 – Fretboard scratches from Rick

10:00 – Trevor subtly holding it down

10:10 – Rich slowly begins peppering in envelope filter bursts

10:24 – Peter adding some staccato organ

10:31 – Like bubbles bursting

11:14 – Ok seriously Jeff is absolutely slaying

11:25 – Peter switches to piano, jam gets a bit darker-tinged

11:51 – Rick playing rhythm with envelope filter

12:30 – Peter trying to start chord progression, Rick stays on one chord

12:46 – Spuds subtly doing awesome fills

13:20 – Rick starts soloing a little bit but then goes back to his rhythm work

13:35 – Peter copying Rick’s playing

13:50 – Jam charges forward

14:14 – Spuds switches to ride cymbal, changes feel

14:28 – Jeff is still all over the congas

14:36 – Trevor playing some really cool licks

14:47 – Rick and Peter link up on repeating progression

15:43 – Bliss

16:25 – Rick still mostly playing rhythm with occasional spurts of lead

16:38 – Jam gets taken down quiet as Spuds kicks into four-on-the-floor variation

16:53 – Shaker is BACK

17:10 – Stank face

17:17 – Peter hits clav

17:32 – Jive Lee segue foreshadowing

17:42 – Band drops out briefly, letting Spuds take the lead

17:59 – Spuds on irregular beat, sounds cool

18:21 – Jeff hitting percussion things

18:38 – Spuds goes half-time with some slick hi-hat work

18:52 – four on the mf floor

19:05 – Rick starts initiating the modulation to Lee

19:18 – Cool repeating lick that Rick builds on and varies

19:43 – Rick returns to earlier rhythm vamp

19:54 – Band ramps up

20:10 – Rick modulates band into G

20:23 – Literally perfect segue into Jive Lee that makes me want to run through a wall with excitement