Drummer reacts to "I'm So Afraid" (Live) by Fleetwood Mac 

Christine’s organ gives the song a soulful and emotional base that doesn’t grab attention, but IMHO really adds beauty. I wouldn’t like the song as much without her contribution.

This performance personifies our concert experiences from the late 60's and 70's. When some of us complain about the music of today in terms of the performers can't play the instruments, write their own music or deliver vocally live, this is why. We all experienced live, brillantly perfected musical performances created by the artists we were watching, for decades. And then suddenly it all disappeared. In its place we got sampling, twerking, auto tune, 50 costume changes and fireworks. All in an effort to disguise the lack of real talent on stage. The music itself became unimportant, a background player, a step child. We wanted it back on center stage but it never returned. The encore was not to be played, the songs are now silent.

“Picks!!! We don’t need no stinking picks!!” - LB

early Buckingham is gold.

From their first album with Stevie and Lindsey in the band. Not many people realize that this LP had as many great songs as the famous RUMOURS album. It begins with the upbeat MONDAY MORNING and concludes with this haunting track Lindsey wrote while he and Stevie were still a performing duo. Everything in between is worthy too.

My eyes lit up when I saw this is coming! My second favorite performance of Lindsey's, a very close second to his performance of Big Love (in later years from this one). If you were blown away by this, you won't believe that one. It's on Lindsey's channel live from Saban Theater in 2011 in case you feel like stumbling across it. :) A most underrated guitarist all things considered. I've heard he's made his fingers bleed from how hard he plays. After seeing him a few times, especially on Big Love, I can see why. I don't think he's ever used a plectrum. Thanks Richard and Lee! :)

The version from "The Dance" is incredibly even better!

Being 16 in the mid 70s was an amazing time to be a rock music fan as all of this was new . The soap opera going on behind the scenes with this band helped the passion in the music . We were weaned on Classic rock both soft & hard -- Rock guitar sound check out The Godmother of Rock & Roll Sister Rosetta Tharpe , then Chuck Berry then the 60s & 70s ,,,

I still love seeing Lindsey do this in concert! It is always amazing!

I didn't see them until 1980. By then their show was a huge production. I love this more, early on with everything so raw and nobody dressing or acting like superstars. Just pure rock music from the heart. Stevie seems so much more real here. Rock on bro.

Christine Perfect was in a band called Chicken Shack. She was a usually uncredited guest pianist on the occasional song starting with the 2nd album. She married bassist John McVie and officially joined the band for the fifth album, Future Games in 1971.

Yaaaay Richard H.!!! LOVE THIS ONE. You too Lee

Lindsey and Stevie started playing together before Fleetwood Mac. They recorded an album together.

Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon Fleetwood Mac - World Turning Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

Thank you Lee. To see him play it 30 Yrs later was like tasting an aged wine....Mick compliments it on drums so well! A true gem!!

The live version from « The Dance » dvd is also incredible. The guitar solo on it is fabulous. The camera work is better and his facial expression seems even more intense. An incredible band. Lindsey is such an emotional player.

I never saw such an early version of this before. As great as this was, I think they actually got better at performing this live as the years went by. It definitely got longer. This was still good though, but watch a later version too. Thanks for reacting to this. Not many reactors have done this one.

Never heard this before! It actually connects to some of their earlier blues sound which only Mick and John were a member of !

Impassioned! It’s wonderful to see them so young here! Thank you, Richard, for requesting this! Thank you, Lee!

Fleetwood Mac was insane, man. Just an incredible band with brilliant songs. And yeah, Lindsay may be my favorite guitar player.

There are many versions of this done live, all a little different and all riveting. It was the highlight of every live show. Don't sleep on what John and Mick do for this, too.

A song I've never heard before. Could they look any more 70s?

Oh yes! Thanks! I was so waiting for this :)

Nice reaction. Mick Fleetwood is at least 6' 6" tall. He's not a fancy drummer but can be a beast when laying down a beat.

This is that great period before Fleetwood Mac became a billionaire pop music machine (which I also loved some of) - the live band always seemed to rock harder, like Lindsey's live "The Chain" blast.

As someone else said...You must now hear Big Love. Amazing.

I saw Fleetwood Mac on the Tusk tour at Wembley Arena in London in 1980 when I was just leaving art college aged 19. This song was the highlight with Lindsey Buckingham and John McVie physically leaning into each other with guitar and bass rumbling. They absolutely kicked ass. Still the greatest gig I ever went to and that's saying a lot as I look back at 63.

There’s a version live from 82 in my opinion Lindsey’s solo is even better. Big love live is just ridiculous strap in mate 😂

That was a really great video and performance. I did see them ONCE and it was during the Rumours days. It was outside like this one. Kind of epic.

UCSB's Harder Stadium. May 2nd, 1976. UFO was on the bill too. I think this is "Spring Fling" which was free with student ID. We had Jane's Addiction for 1989's Spring fling. I think it was ten bucks for non-students. Probably five bucks back in '76.

One of the best rock-blues rock band.I like the era of Peter Green and the era with Stevie and Lindsey🤘

Usually when someone shows "I'm So Afraid" Live video it's from their "The Dance" concert, so I was surprised that there was a live version from 1976 out there. Both video's show the intensity Lindsey brings to this song. I remember in 1976 that Fleetwood Mac were one of the opening bands in a summer concert stadium tour with The Eagles. Boz Scaggs was the other opener. I was a teenager and wanted to go but didn't have the money. 😒 Happy to see young people like yourself enjoying music I grew up on. 😎

I can't believe I've never heard this song before. Tnx!

This song spoke to me and got me through my own dark night of the soul. I played it over and over.

as someone mentioned the version from "the dance" concert is even more amazing. as the years went on the guitar solo got longer,and lindsay's hair got shorter. the most incredible part is he finger picks the whole thing.

Wow! So Afraid, Soulshine and Susie Q live all in one day! Out of the park, man. 0:05

performances like this you can see the original roots of FM as a blues band. that rhythm section w/ Mick and John are very evident, tho you cannot watch Buckingham perform live and know you are in the presence of a great one. (me. five times. three w/ FM and two solo shows)

Great video; there is another LB music journey: Not That Funny. There is a video on the Internet from the Mirage tour in 1982. Both songs in good quality are also on the official live album 1980 of the Tusk tour. But you have to listen to the song with fun and without much analysis, it's really a psycho trip, half therapy. After Afraid That Fun.

I bet if they played that same stadium today, those seats behind them would be filled up!

I can't wait until you react to Lindsey Buckingham shredding on an acoustic guitar. The video is from the Fleetwood Mac live concert "The Dance", and the song is called "Big Love." The rest of the band takes a break, and Lyndsey commands the whole audiences attention with just that acoustic guitar and his voice! It's powerful.

L33 you've got to see "Big Love" from The Dance if you want to see Lindsey go intense ❤ He's one of the rare people that can make one guitar sound like 2 or 3!

FYI: Christine and John were married... then they weren't. Lindsey and Stevie were a couple... then they weren't. Their relationship dramas were the basis of "Rumours."

Yep, they brought it.

Lindsey definitely can play and I love the songs where he goes off on his own. However, I bought a CD of his solo work and I just could not get into it and I'm not sure why. It's a shame such a great band that survived for decades ended up falling apart over, I think, personalities and the direction some wanted the music to go to and others didn't. Thank goodness we have their music, from the beginning to the end, with us always.

Great live performance by Fleetwood Mac. Hey two other bands u should give a listen too L33. Blue Oyster Cult & Budgie are two great bands with a ton of great songs. Keep it up brother.

That was a bad ass video, but I agree that the 1997 video from " The Dance " is amazing!!

They were so good live that it would make your hair hurt.

"I really should get into more Fleetwood Mac. Cuz I think we've done like a handful of Fleetwood Mac .. I've kinda dibbled & dabbled throughout their catalog .." 'Dibbles and dabbles' don't even begin to scratch the surface .. ☺.. So, I'm up for the challenge to send ya my 'handful of F.M. dibbles & dabbles'. I'm surprised I found this DVD as easily as I did this time around. I bought it when it first got released. It's 🔥. No. Actually it's an inferno 🔥🔥🔥! It is #FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE in BOSTON 2004. Here are a few links to some of the song performances. You being a drummer .. I don't even need to guess .. It's a fact that you will really dig the first video listed. Mic has a drum solo that will knock your socks off! .. #WORLD TURNING .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YSav-feWt54.html #BEAUTIFUL CHILD .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t444DX6z8Ew.html #GYPSY .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-c5j8In4wu3g.html #STAND BACK .. {another killer drum solo by the bands percusionist} .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-voxAXO0aasY.html #TUSK .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dh5XpLAsWec.html #GO YOUR OWN WAY .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ho0AOqK0aWI.html #I'M SO AFRAID .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TDwg28bSjoI.html Enjoy!!!

Your replay should be a later live version from The Dance. Even if not a new review, just to check it out on your own time to see how the tune matured.

Try something just before LandS joined,,Bob Welch era! Sentimental Lady.or Hypnotized!

just came home from deployment. heard on juke box at laundermat. spent lots of coin.

Oh well...

Nice review but I'd suggest watching his performance of the same song 20 years later, the one in Boston was the best solo I've seen from him or maybe anybody...

Please check out Dreams and Rhiannon by them

From the concert footage I've seen it's pretty clear Lindsey took this song pretty seriously. Apparently he's referring to struggling with bi-polar disorder. He's definitely one of my favorite guitarists. He rarely put himself forward in the mix on recordings and sometimes you have to listen close. His rhythm playing is top notch though. It's tasteful and complex. Modern day Fleetwood Mac uses two guitarists to replace him.

Tasty 🤤

I’m a massive fan of Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac. While Rumours is always considered their best album, I disagree - in my mind, as excellent as Rumours is, Peter Green's debut album, Mystery To Me, Tusk and Say You Will all outshine it and on their 1975 “White Album” they are at their best.

He is such an underrated guitar player.

If you think the guitar playing was good in this, watch him perform this at The Dance concert from 97. Sound and picture quality is so much better than this Another couple of great live performances, The Chain from the ‘82 concert and Go Insane from The Dance concert Buckingham is a legend on guitar, he gets so much emotion out of that thing

Buckingham Nicks

Well, there is a bunch of great hits to listen to. I’ve always liked Rhiannon or Go Your Own Way, Never going back again, I think they’re better live. The same way that Pink Floyd was live, better than the album.

The album track from -75 self titled album is good but it's the weakest version - recorded in too high a key and truncated to about 4 minutes for the album from an original 7min+. Live it just got longer and better. The 1980 track from Cleveland on the 1980 Live album is about 8 minutes and arguably the best. Alas no video. There are great video live versions from their 1982, 1997 and 2003-4 tours on line and others from his solo tours.

Christine is adding great harmonies besides Stevie...

L33- Hard Rock is NOT metal. Hard Rock has much greatness and a bit of dross; Metal has reversed the proportions... much dross with a couple nuggets (Unleash the Archers and Voivod from my country- Canada). The legendary Christine Perfect (you know her by her married name, McVie) would NOT EVER be a part of Metal. Peace, love and bellbottoms.