Fleetwood Mac ~ The Chain ~ Live 1982 

still waiting

The whole movie is just the Rumours recording sessions.

@@supertramp9333 it's on it's way... but as a limited series :) :)

who can play stevie?

It has to be a matter of time

@jayfive276 ... Genius!

yesssss lmao!

Jayfive276 😂😂

accurate

Facts

Very very well put my guy

YES!!

Just thinking about that is making me tear up. From what I know, or seems you described it spot on.

Brilliant take.

That was probably the most accurate description of them I've ever heard.

she was also divorcing john during this time period.

In a later interview she was describing how pissed off she was at Lindsey during this performance.

I was going to make the same comment that Christine was just doing her part and watching them go at it.😮

She’s thinking, Here they go again and Mick Fleetwood is trying to keep up.

The one unadmitted thing I truly believe is that Lyndsey and Christine had an affair at some point. There's just this weird energy and eye contact between them during some performances that has me convinced. Now she's gone and he'll likely never admit it.

True

Nope. Live 1979.

The drummer alone made a coke shortage happen at some point!🤣

The most awesome

XD

Correct me if im wrong... after 4:35 lindsey buckingham show us that he's not actually playing the quitar... am i right?

@@Levael Wrong. Play Big love first and think: do he really would ever need any playback ?

@@Levael for me it's more like a fact he's playing for real, because you listen weird shit when he pulls off his arm from the strings.

@@Levael no need for autotuning and playback back then..they were playing their hearts out every night!!

@Levael He’s using a massive reverb effect, a bit of delay, and a chorus pedal

😂😂

Whenever I have a meltdown I get arrested, yet these two can have one and make incredible music?? Doesn’t seem fair, but ok. 😆

Tension and fury can make for great art

Your comment is my new favourite

It wasn’t just the two of them - Christine and John McVie split during the creation of this album as well. She was sleeping with their lighting designer. Mick had either just or was about to get divorced.

That's not Lindsey Buckingham that's Tom Hanks in Big.

true

😅

Omg 😂 😂 lol, yessss!

And Christine's the child

@@thegirlfrommars4386 Jesus Christ, we're all the child -- why can't they just get along and love each other? It's tearing me apart.

how long ago was this?

May have been this performance maybe?

I sure wish I could have seen that.

Maybe it was when they broke up and it was still a fresh wound.

@@DM_21 It has ALWAYS been a fresh wound since they broke up. Lindsay getting “fired” has been building up for years. The Chain has been broken.

Well put.

Nah, she wasn't playing, and neither was Lindsey. Love, hate, love, oh yes it's real.

✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️

it is other worldy.. chills!!!!

It’s like a tribal call

I noticed the same thing about Stevie aggressively playing the tambourine far away.

I laughed way harder than I should’ve

She at least did that between her 200 costume changes Mick id stay away from here

Floor gang, tambourine gang Aouh

Plays the guitar like hell 🤣

British VS Americans

Idk, McFleetwood is losing it too.

Mick Fleetwood was just nuts too

@@grudman7885 5:22 yeah pretty much

And through it all Buckingham is just incredible.

hard to tell if the rage or cocaine is contributing to the shaking more tbh

@@jsegaul420 probably both

@@trishalennex4630 yes

In rage and coke

Anger and coke can lead to some really great electric guitar work, if metal is anything to go by

Golden.

Dunitez26 😂 😂 😂 lmao, definitely made laugh out loud (but same)

Best comment ever! 😂

Great comment +++

🤣🤣

Pretty sure she was the only adult in this group a lot of the time.

It’s funny that even then, she’s speculated to have had an affair with Lindsey lmao

It's literally like the coke all hit at one time and possessed Lindsey's body. LMAO He just starts shaking. LOL

They all look strung out

Her expression at 2:44 after his primordial scream jumped off the screen

It's hilarious how Lindsey just comes and belts that part out LOL 😂😂

Comments from people that have clearly never really done drugs, aside from maybe some coke laced inositol back in college after a few zimas once or twice.

AND he's playing without a pick! Simply amazing 👏

Really? So they just came out and screamed F you at each other for a couple of minutes and then played the concert? NICE!!!

Only to be topped by a 70s Fleetwood mac performance

"The fact you will fail a drug test just by watching it." Yes indeed

Love it so much drama🎉

Mick's face is just pure innocent joy. He's experiencing a child like wonder and it's the best and most hilarious part of this amazing performance.

lindsey was skiing down a double black diamond

Someone on another video said that Mick fought his way through a heart attack/OD during his drum playing here, and I can't stop laughing at that lol

Yep. That definitely was their way for awhile. lol

If you are Lindsay apparently you can.

And that was just the opener.

Oh yes you can and then it's magic.

The song was over

@@johnkess2174 she said after !

Same

Lindsey is irresponsible in this one

I'll join you in your times of dire need

Same.. and the Rhianon live haha

@@yasnaastorga7152 yes true

I think I read that Lindsay had just recently found out that Mick was sleeping with Stevie before this tour.

Mick has his head turned away and is cowering, Lindsey is doing everything he can to keep from coming apart and letting that come out thru his playing. Great performance!

@@tracytharp1189 Oh damn, it was that bad huh

Watch later in the concert when he freaks out during his drum solo

Mick holds them together every time

@@prplhze2000 That wasn't a drum solo. It was Mick acting silly and outrageous to detract from the fact that he's a crappy drummer.

@@melissaforth5464 yeah he was really holding em together when he was fucking stevie and then cutting silver springs from rumours huh

he was equally concerned that it would explode and ruin their tour and probably his bottom line so probably more XO than :D

Manrique Molina She's the eye of the storm .

And even she looks like she's snorted her fair share.

Well it wasn't fucking Linsey lol. What a performance from him though.

Christie McVie always seemed to me as if she was a mediator for them.

ya think?...of course she was and has always been, chris is the bands mommy...mick is the daddy, what could go wrong, lol.

I saw that, wondering if maybe they rehearsed it this way, I mean this tour had many shows, maybe this is the way they worked it out....but no, I think you might be right. Lindsey was out of his skull with vocal aggression, to go with his blistering guitar, and she was responding, trying to get herself heard over him. Sure was an excellent result tho, for us, maybe not so much for her

Was this version on one of their live records?

Bobby-pins? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Gold

The hat was on cocaine too

Hell, my sentiments exactly!!!!! Trying to figure that out......

Ken Sharpe you should tell them why you laughed xD

I keep coming back to read them as i watch the video bc its 100x more hilarious

@@Aenhoa YES! The comments are like fine wine. They get better with age

Colombian Gold

She was the glue.

I'll go one step further my friend and say that without Christine and Lindsey and their incomparable talent(s) and chemistry, it's just about a wash for Fleetwood Mac the band, considering the advanced ages of the remaining band members. John, Mick, and Stevie, surrounded by session players? I don't know......

Damn it, I'm crying. This band was one in a zillion.

​@@tigeranthonyI read that when Christine passed away Mick said Fleetwood Mac is no more but in my opinion once Mick fired Lindsey that was the end for me

​@@tigeranthonyDude,couldn't of said it better myself except when Mick fired Lindsey for me it was over for Fleetwood Mac

Same. It's brilliant.

Me 2

Same. I like to listen to this late at night,in the car on roads where I know there's no police or other drivers and let loose. It invigorating 😂

Because he knows it's bloody gold, he's like the puppet master pulling there strings 😂.

Mic was banging stevie backstage and linsey caught them you'd be pissed too.

He did Stevie too sometime around this I think.

Not a care in HIS world at the time because it's pretty clear he is off in his own world.

mick was the instigator

Jenifer Mattock wow that's the best comment ever!

It's how all three of them have unique styles and voices that perfectly fit together that can never be replicated by any other group on Earth. When they first got together for their first rehearsal in 1975, they sang "Say You Love Me" together and Christine freeked out and got chills and said she had never felt that before (or since).

For certain! Noce observation

nice realistic critique!

So awesome that you are getting the actual meaning of the song!

zooo pure emotion , love it

screaming at each other [and in tune]***

Cocaine is one helluva drug

So much better than most bands or singer/songwriters today who go out of their way to act that disaffected cool.

you need to find the desire to give up, smoking is bad for you

@@PeterPete I doubt he's serious, it's an old joke that's been around for decades. Usually someone says it after something really intense.

@@PeterPete Dudes, if that was sarcasm, it fell real flat. Just revel in The Big Mac....

F-ing awesome!

I know right?

Saw him do a solo acoustic show several years ago. Massively underrated guitarist, mind blowing on every level.

The way she looks at him when he is screaming at her. A mixture of lost love and sorrow

Fatima Mahdi and coke🥴

LITERALLY ME FUCKING TOO JUST BEFORE I READ THIS COMMENT

She looks like she's tired of their shit

she's like "kids, just please, don't fuckin' kill each other on stage, will ya?" :D

Man I can’t wait till the Fleetwood Mac movie! Comes out ..!2019!!!

Ricardo Torres I mean… They’re still sort of making the movie as they go! As in, even though they seem to have chilled out a lot these days, there’s always drama in this group of people.

@@SuperTorres7 Is this true? Ive been hoping there would be a biopic from the story of this band.

True tho, Lindsey and Knopfler are my inspirations too

people say this, but they are also doing their job

And the argument still isn't over today

For reals

they went thorugh a rough breakup i think idk

If I was Lindsey I would’ve turned into Pete Townshend at the end of the show.

Lmaoooo mine too😭😭😭

Oh **ck!, another dumb "underrated" comment. When is RU-vid going to move on from this overrated buzzword?

Tiarnán looks paranoid. Probably checking to make sure he's not a cop. Hahah

Skyler Perron he seems to be on double her amount of cocaine too haha

That's what I said and she and Mick ADMITTEDLY were usually the big heavies. He just looks and acts like an idiot.

Totally agree, it's hypnotic and when you know about their story, their history it just adds to the atmosphere.

It's an act for the song...

Can't tell if it's the stage lighting or was she on the verge of tears watching them?

They even got Christine fires up.

Every single band member is playing so intensely and aggressively. You can feel the pain and frustration.

Yes.

I love that it is so emotionally charged. This is is the MOST unique version, the greatest version, in my opinion, because there is real emotion behind every word. I also think the Guitar Riff in this performance is different from all the other versions of the song.

Epic comment

I think the mac story would be better suited to a minimum series. Just because there are so many parts to the story . Part one Peter Green. Part two Bob welah years. Part three Rumors years to tango in the night . Part four The Dance till present day.

I wish your comment goes viral

*Hollywood will start ONCE one of them is DEAD*

Begging for a Netflix documentary?

Who would play stevie??! I wonder 🤔

+ Michael Trujillo Jr I don't think they did. Just another awesome act for them. In retrospect, over the years, we can truly say that.

The hell you say I was there

⁠@@aracelymoran2504they certainly did, though we are blessed that we kind of are able to inject ourselves in that moment, but those two in this particular performance as well as in a few others, both stevie and lindsey, expose their crowds to a cathartic display of love and hatered that can’t be easily replicated. They respected each other as musicians and artists, but as a couple clashed hard and held no punches. This thing we see here is as genuine as it gets. I see them and I can tell they’re both hurting bad, and that right there is the spice of music and art as a whole: expressing their emotions through song, dark ad they may be.

Actually, this vhs concert only highlighted some of the performances, hence like an hour or so released video. The opening song during the Mirage Tour was usually Second Hand News, then The Chain...

but Linds can't out sing Stevie

Incredible performance. So many raw emotions.

@@araceliroman5632 stevie was my woman growing up!!!!!

@@jobjock It is a mute argument. Two different genders and two different styles.

@@aracelymoran2504 ^^the right response

I remember those days!! Sunday afternoons! That was how I originally fell for this song, love it.

And make T H A T

🤣🤣🤣

ABBA among other groups did the same. Check out the video of The Winner Takes It All.

@@bernadettenasfi9644 The whole Rumours album was about a break up. It went on to be one of the biggest albums of all time.

Let's not fucking romantacise the pain these two put eachother though. They made rumors despite the breakup, not because of it

Daddy put his finger in the wrong sugar bowl. 😂

@@JakeStewart1343 It was actually Mummy’s lock got picked by the wrong key...

@@cocob0l0 Why not both?

I absolutely agree. I don't care what it was that was the catalyst for his performance but he was beyond amped up. His performance was what drew me to this particular version.

9Having seen and heard him do it live.... it's loud (enough). Was rattling my spine, could feel it coming up through the floor as I sat in my wheelchair ;) It's probably turned down in the mixing process - we are hearing whats coming through monitors/mixing deck, the crowd will be getting the full force....

@@asm1 Excellent insight.

John's bass is just awesome...at 3.20 his play is the calm in the middle of the storm around them...lol. Brilliant bass work

Check the 1979 live performance of this song recorded I believe here in St. Louis. McVie's magnificent bass line is plenty loud and rhythmic in that version. I just love those fills he does up and down the fretboard around the main bass line.

@@asm1 you probably right only heard it here

We can only imagine, the tension must have been THICK

Ikr?

One of a kind 🎸Lindsey Buckingham 💯🎤♥️🎸

And hes shredding like that without a pick which is crazy to me.

He's extraordinary.

He sings and plays exquisite guitar at the same time. Superhuman talent

Even she was hoping

There is also a bass player

David Havell i agree with you 100% but queen would still be no 1#

David Lloyd Griffith FUCK NO this has to be number 1 are u forreals, freddy mercury was a legend but this band is the novela, the fuckin soap opera of the whole music world bro

Cinderella 1982 Moscow ranks high also. This was awesome!

Number 1 is daft punk at Coachella 2006 and number 2 is the Stop Making Sense tour by talking heads

Queen lol no way

But all i see is geniune pure perfect art, you are not doing it well

@@pg6917 their artistry is unquestionable and I am frequently not doing it well.

2:39

I cackled

*CHAIN*

Christine looks like she's pretty much had it with both of them lol

*HYPER MUTEKI MUGEN CHAIN WOoOOOooaaaaAAAAaAah*

Yes!

It honestly didn’t sound that good. So watered down compared to recordings

That's why we have different opinions, but it sounds like 2 guitar players and a bass guitar. How many picks did we see Lindsey toss? I am jamming on how hot Christine Mcvie is in this video, and she is rockin' out. Stevies always hot!

@@adrianmoore5985 none. He threw no picks.

For me IS the build Up.

​@@eboethrasherI like to think he threw up a finger

How is that a solo?

@@aoaoa605 you need to go and check your ears to the doctor. Or its very possible that you don't know much about music nor guitar solos.

@@TwistedMind86Chern okay

@@TwistedMind86Chern what is music? Haven’t heard of it

@@aoaoa605 exactly what i was expecting from a deaf human being. 😎 Hopefully you ll learn about music and what is a guitar solo - lead guitar part .

Yeah and at the end he talks like nothing just happened - fantastic!

a mix of both for sure...but something else is going on that we can not and will not never be able to figure out, i call it magic/chemistry and talent.

There's some very real love in there, too. Don't forget that Stevie was with Lindsey AND Mick later on - and John and Christine married and divorced. But they stayed together. It takes more than willpower to do that. You need some basic love and respect to be able to stick it out the way they did. Great insight.

Scary good, indeed! Electrifying emotions! I'm surprised Lindsey's fingers weren't bleeding from his intense finger-picking performance!

Sometimes the best art comes from RAW emotion..good call

It's worse than hatred. It's love.

Same here✅️✅️✅️

That solo smacks, it just keeps going and then you watch and he is like assaulting the guitar.

Even coked up, who else could produce this...best song ever ever ever

Dude is a guitar god-so underrated

A totally underrated guitarist imo can't read music, is completely self taught and never plays with a pick! Stevie best remember he's the reason she's in Fleetwood mac in the first place!

@@kes78 ummmm, can't really have one without the other and call it Fleetwood Mac.

Damn!! I love Stevie's voice, but I have to say Lindsey was on fire! I could listen to this one version all day!!!

halleck3 every FM concert was emotional!

cocaine is a hell of a drug