Rickie Lee Jones Live in Paris 1985 Last Chance Texaco

[ben0765]

Wow. Watching and listening to this touched me physically and emotionally. Deeply. I wish there were more artists like her now.

[guitarFK]

Great great footage -love it--when acoustic guitars sounded acoustic--great version of this song--thanks so much for posting

[Guirremotel]

I was on the island of Maui in 1979 going from Lahaina to Hana and I came to the small town of Paia, pulled up at a small coffee shop, ordered my coffee and looked up and there it was. The Last Chance Texaco, just across the street...that was actually its name. I found myself wondering if Rickie Lee Jones had been sitting there in that same coffee shop getting her inspiration for this song. It was the last chance, too, for gasoline!!!

[makissoflife]

Outstanding...an amazing tune and amazing performance...

...thanks for posting.

[wile1600]

unreal love you ricki this song moves me so much

[FRANCECHILD]

RICKIE WE LOVE U.

[FRANCECHILD]

STAY TUNED IN JESUS. AMEN.

[badmemory]

Man, I never get tired of listening to this song. Thanks for sharing!

[Cali4yaDreaming]

What a gem, thanks for posting!

[orionedwin]

GODDESS!!!!!

[sookiestackhouse2u]

i love you, rickie...................

[TheGringopobre]

lo maximo,viva rickie

[gvt2u]

T A L E N T

[MaereMaid]

Thanks so much for posting this!

[angieslindmusic]

The song by itself is so fantastic. Add that voice. Then add that band. Unspeakably brilliant 6 minutes of live performing.

[musikfan62]

Jeff, thank you for this gem! Thank you, thank you, can't thank you enough!!

[Sushi542]

I suppose that talent like hers can be burdensome...life experiences on top of fame can also be crippling. It is sad to see how impaired she was in this performance...one of my all time favorite RLJ songs. I wish her peace, love and joy in her life. Such a memorable singer/songwritter. Truly one of the greatest - unique in her sound and material.

[daven58100]

I remember years ago she was on SNL or something and they had to force themselves to get through whatever song it was they were playing. Pretty sad. This was a great album though.

[CafeAlpha]

@dmartens101 she's always had a drinking problem.

I saw her in concert. She was way too drunk to perform, couldn't remember her songs and did a drunk rant about how we shouldn't blame her for being drunk because her dog died.

[PUBSHAMROCKS]

THE BEST.

[daisypeachy]

thanks

[uplook01]

Awesome video of an awesome talent. Haunting stuff. Keep your HipHop gimme more of this.

[bendbadgersteve]

This and "Coolsville" from the first album are of another world. Haunting are understatements.

What a different and special talent.

[SwingRiots]

Do you have to say that on every video?

[chestermilleriii]

@dmartens101

other possibilities:

she had a bad night;

she had a bad audience;

you had a bad night;

someone misinterpreted what was going on;

I wonder how many thousands of performances she has given? Could they all have been perfect? Could she be something of a perfectionist, disappointed by anything less?

Sorry you had a bad time.

[blues917]

Definitely one of the best renditions of "Last Chance Texaco" that I've heard, and I've been with her since day one. Great post. Thank you, very much.

[reverendcuntbag]

this song makes me think about how shell pretty much killed the texaco brand. =[

[ttocsify]

is that a lyricon being played?

[fangirl2themax]

the percussionist was so right on.  Rickie Lee you are awesome

[suzannagirl]

I saw Ricki Lee in Australia in about 96 I think....she was awesome, and this song made me cry at the concert...it was haunting...

[ocwj881]

1982 shows

[ilprofessor]

My God!! In 1985 I was in love with Rickie!! Thanks for this video.

Ps: I did not read all the discussione about Chuck E. His really name was Chuck E. Weiss but it was a singer, a friend of Rickie and Tome Waits. I own a EP where he sings a great song together with Rickie (Sidekick).

[sookiestackhouse2u]

i love you, rickie!!!!!!!!!

[crasanthama]

cooler than cool !!!!

wow what an awsome show

thanks

peace love n music

[bertielynn]

it all makes sense now

[aneehs59]

think chuckie wise was a friend of Tom Waits that she based Chuck E's in love on (loosely)Dont think she was in love with him it was just a throw away line from Waits ( i think)

[keslin]

I've read in Waits biography that Jones had picked up the phone and when she putted it she had said "Chuck E. is in love". That was the inspiration in some way...and Chuck E. Weiss was a producer if i remmember.

[BWFSabian]

Chuck "Charles" Edward Jones.. Brother of Rachel Lee, lost a leg from drink/drugs use and finally died in a traffic collision.. Chuck E was her brother and the line "Chuck E's in love with the little girl, singin' this song." is just that.. He loved his little sister as she loved him.. The main subject of the song is about her brother falling for a girl she knew, his druggie crim friends, getting knocked back and coming back to his sister for pain releif and unquestioned love.

Read a Bio.

[MediaPointEnt]

What in the HELL are you talking about. What Bio are you referring to?

[JosephPaul2]

Fucking brilliant. She has been such an inspiration to me.

[justlikejack1959]

who writes like this anymore.

[justlikejack1959]

you try to be Standard and you try to be Mobile, you try living in a World and in a Shell. On the road, life is a highway.

[JosephPaul2]

Her use of the car imagery in this is beautiful. So real.

[38village]

Both she and Tom Waits refer to Chuckie Wise, who is/was he?

[justlikejack1959]

kerouac

[Marichaun]

Rickie Lee sure does paint a picture with her poetry, I love how she gives a car female qualities- it's like he is explaining love to a man so he can understand. Awesome performance!

[fayedunawayfan]

Lovely words Marichaun. She is indeed a one of a kind musician.

[WIGSCOTT]

I enjoy listening to Bruce Springsteen's "The Wild The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" and then Rickie Lee's "Pirates" somehow they both remind me of one another in their different characters contained within.

[deweypug]

Wow, that is funny you say that. I have always thought of Bruce and Rikki as kindred souls, speaking a similar language and singing the suburban street passion and frustration of youth.

[WIGSCOTT]

Ah, , Rickie Lee, , one of those very few artists that make you just stop and let yourself get drawn into her own little world of magical stories and characters. Love those first 3 albums.

[boscohl]

watched this again Great!!! like I said before monster musicians(meaning extremly superb)each and every one of them breathe great life into this song. Where can I buy a dvd of this concert?

[KingmanOldDude]

Awesome...

[wqpeb]

Shit..I was so mesmerized..I forgot to breathe! And I have heard this so many times before. NorthernOne

[potatoboob]

this is incredible

[leanyears]

Coca~Cola aint the "real thing"- Rickie is!!

Bless this woman's talent and spirit.

[jessonne]

Thanks for posting these song , I haven't seen this concert for 20 years, she's wonderfull!

[DurtyDominican]

was in high school when her 1st album came out. this woman is incredible, no one like her before or since. he music got me through a LOT. saw her here in L.A. this year . . . cried like a baby. pure poetry, great songwriting, she's got it all, y'all.

[leanyears]

Pure magnificence is Rickie- for me she makes life come to "life"

[leanyears]

Get hep to Rickie. She has an innate wisdom and is pure Ambrosia.

[tialeetull]

this song is absolutely one of my favorites - if you like this, check out sheryl crow's 'the book' off the second album (self-titled)

[jackhillty]

i've always thought this was one of rhe ten best songs of the 20th century

[leanyears]

A timeless classic-as fresh and vital as ever.

[boscohl]

Rickie is great and it seems as if she has the monster club playing behind her.

[angieslindmusic]

fuck me - what an artist--what a band. was that not a perfect string of moments??? (picking face up off floor...) the thanks so much Jeff for sharing this with us!!!!

[MarchinSC]

She looks a bit like Carley Simon here.

[Blip925]

yea but no ... absolutly ... no comparison...

[DonnieBrownIII]

Is it just me or does Alanis Morrisette, Carly Simon, Joni Micthell, Natalie Merchant and Ricki Lee Jones all have the same mouth?

[lekkerebek]

I know it sounds absurd in a way, but that´s the way I feel! But otherwise..... hearing that I am not alone in my state of mind makes me smile!! Thanx man!!

[radiocommander]

Hmm....interesting.

Out from your re-commentary, I have a German friend who doesn't love to see live perfomance videos, since he said he could not perceive as if the singer sang songs dedicating to HIM when he sees the live-video. He on the contrary loves to go to live concerts, though.

I think I can somehow understand what would appear in your mind and in my friend's mind :-)

Thnaks for your comment.

[lekkerebek]

That´s not exactly what I mean, but your friend has a point there - I have always loved to go to live concerts and will do so till I die I guess, but watching a performance on video never comes even remotely near to the experience of really seeing and hearing an artist!!

But I think we drift on the same level more or less!! :-)

[lekkerebek]

.. due to the fact, that her songs oftentimes are so amazingly intimate, I for one have the feeling, that the presence of a large audience is sometimes exactly the thing I as a listener do not need! Like I said, I have this feeling every time I drive past a Texaco station and -- and in case "last chance.." is playing at that moment -- I seem to need this solitairy intimacy, so as if this one moment, this one song is only for ME and because it goes thus deep I can not share the moment with anyone

[lekkerebek]

Of all the songs by R.L.J. there is non more catching as "Last chance Texaco": It has it all: It evokes so much pictures in the mind, it makes one move slower and look back (in one self), there´s this typical smile on my face whenever I drive past a Texaco station, there is this desperate tone in lyric and music - In bringing up memories that aren´t even my own it is SO amazingly brilliant and for me only paralleled by one piece: "..on sundays the ladies took of their weiry old hats...."

THANX!

[radiocommander]

Yes. It's a song that really evokes and invokes some realistic feelings onto everyone's mind. A beautiful comment indeed. But one thing I do not understand is, why doesn't anyone refer to playing-performance of the song at this stage? It's even better than her original recording. The synthesizer player, the basist, the bell player and nevertheless RLJ's voice, they're totally incredible, as on a live stage!

[lekkerebek]

Hi Radiocommander! I think you´re absolutely right concerning your view of live-recordings and in the case of R.L.J., whom I had the pleasure to see about ten years ago at the North sea Jazz Festival in Le Hague in Holland and it was really amazing: her on-stage interpretation of "Dat there" was SO good and I still see her moving across the stage, still hear the song and still see the laughter in whole of her performance, but (for me) there is a small "but" concerning live-recordings of RLJ ....

[Gunnabee]

takes me back to when it all meant something..i wish it still did..like then..

[Dukabor]

the beauty of this song...is how she integrates the sounds of a car horn going by...the dolby effect...through voice...instruments...it's pure genius

[qsfinest]

what a sensational unique and sexy voice,

what a great composer.

broadcasters around the globe- dig this!

[Supernovae1a]

This song is amazing - Love the Lyrics!! Prose!

[atomicwendy]

I adore this song

[ibdaily]

Is there anyone else who creates a mood more so in verse and lyric that Rickie Lee? A true reflection of life in song - one of the most underrated and unappreciated artists of our time.

[dannlynch]

I would have made my own comment here yet yours is exactly what I would say myself. well worded. Rickie is the realest!!!!

[baggnz]

Deep-sad, sorrowful powerful song

[SynapticChaos]

awesome

[Dukabor]

agree..awesome song...I mean the analogies kick ass...I guess you have to be a certain age to remember "the man with the star"...let alone trust him!...

[phillyroxx]

Thanks for posting. Awesome song....can't get enough of it. Rickie is so versatile and talented it's a shame many don't know of this great artist.

[sabourter]

One of my favourite songs, so much emotion in the voice. Love ya Ricki.

[iimprov2]

I've listened to this thousands of times... LP..... cassette.... CD! :-)

Nice to see a live version. Thanks so much.

[Tankgirlie]

Brings back awsome memories...You young guys Try some Feist! you'll like her!

[ericrob123]

J.P. THANKS MAN!!!! COOL MUSIC!!

[Dukabor]

too bad Rickie looks so fucked up...great band...it's what ruined her...but what the hell...it was Paris...

[Dukabor]

last chance to "trust the man with the star"...so many analogies in this song...it would take a week!

[BrunoCoutant]

Great rendition of a great song. Thanks so much!