FANS ARE NOW RATING THE SHOWS AS WELL

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Rated "5" by WaynieMac

Thank you to the Fanclub and to Fleetwood Mac. What an incredible experience we had tonight, what a PARTY! It was like having The Mac all to ourselves and everyone in that auditoriam felt it, the magic and love and ease of this celebration. It was like, "Pinch me! Is this for real?" Here's how it started...

Torrential rain, wet, humid, muggy - the poor out-of-towners having to deal with this plus grid-lock traffic (Red Sox played tonight). My friend's late picking me up, we wind up in grid lock, it's late, 5:55, doors opened at 5:30, I'm thinkin we'll be in the last aisle if we even make it before the 6:30 door cut-off. We made it, signed in, through the gate (I was not searched, could easily have brought a camera but didn't) and were directed to the "club" section upstairs. This turns out to be the outer ring of the arena, the concession, and we move to the end of a long, long a$$ line. A women was going around marking the pretty people ( you know, well groomed, ties, hair) with a marker. The crowd basically waited patiently standing in that line , a single concession was open selling beer and water and crap. Meanwhile...

Fleetwood Mac starts playing their sound check inside. Security is keeping the line back from the curtains that close off the main arena, so people are moving the curtains aside as Mac plays Dreams, and a little security guard goes around the loop pulling back the curtains and tisking people, and then he's gone and someone else pulls aside the curtains. It's like a little game. We waited in that line encircling the arena for almost two hours. Beer flowed, Stevie's glam shots were filmed, we heard a few more tunes and parts of tunes. Getting juicy!

So the pretty, marked people are rounded up and are seated first , and then the comb-overs are allowed in. So we're headed down into the arena toward the stage and floor, the right side loge is filled and the left at the other end is filling. Marker lady is directing the seating. There is a filming platform taking up most of the middle floor, so there are only 12 or so rows of floor seats, with either side shrunken by large pendelum-armed cameras. The marked people were used to fill in the seats along the left and right banks of the stage. That left the floor seats to the comb-overs, YES! It seamed like the entire 1st row was blond and wearing lace. Next time, I'll know what to wear. I'm in the 8th row or so and the show begins, the Fleet seats @19,000... there are less than 1,000 here tonight, surrounding the stage in a crescent... "Listen to the wind blow..."

Stevie has BIG HAIR tonight, extra fluffy, and a little over the top eye liner for the cameras. The Chain was awesome, hello Boston, welcome. You'ld never know the whole back of the place was empty. No a$$ touched a seat the whole night. You all know the set list. Everyone was extra dramatic for the cameras.

The best songs were the duets, especially Say Goodbye. Wow, I had a tear. Lindsey sang it so tenderly, Stevies responses were so... wistful. Never Going Back Again, gosh, like call and response. Stevie dedicated Landslide to Lindsey, "who taught me to play the pick (?) to write it and I wrote it for him. " He seemed really emotional. It wasn't your usual sing along. Aside from the 18,000 less voices, tonight it was hers to sing to him.

The evening had a very loose feel, like you didn't really know what was gonna happen next. After a few songs, the band took a little break! So people are moving about. Security you ask? I didn't see any on the floor. People went whereever they wanted! The front of the stage filled up immediately. It was 3 deep chick city! The little break lasted all of 3 minutes, enough to have cleared out lots of seats ahead of me, so... now I'm in the 4rth row aisle, everyone moved up, the last few rows (say 11 and 12) are empty! At one point before moving up, I was dancing and rocking and feeling kinda wierd because everything on my left was empty! It was like... drafty. So now I can really boogy, 4th row aisle, dancing in the aisle, no security, arm and leg room... I have never had so much fun, I have never danced and sang along in such complete abandon. We were free to have a great time and we did.

The new songs are so good, all of them were exceptional. OH, Reeboks! Fluffy hair and Reeboks. I digress. Peacekeeper is so hot. Huge sing-a-long factor so right to the top of my list. Say You Will had Stevie really working the hands, the lasso, big camera play, over the top, wait 'til you see. Come was awesome, but I couldn't help feeling someone I mean something was missing. He didn't let the audience play that one. The one that burned and scorched was I'm So Afraid., awesome wailing, wow! to the heavens. I thought I'd heard it to death and even voted it off the board lists early on, but he rescued it for me tonight. I've never heard it better. Down he went with it, into the sea of blond and lace, must have been a dozen or more people touching him, playing the guitar, tapping on his leg, wiping the sweat off his forehead. What a guy.

Lindsey was an autographing lunatic, even making the rest of the band wait before the final encore, while he signed, and shook,and signed. It was like a sea of overhead tour books, BuckinghamNicks records, and sharpies.

There is nothing like Mick and Taku and Steve poundin' out beats on World Turning - nothing that is when you've got some arm and leg room and can actually DANCE YOUR A$$ OFF to the jungle rhythm... "Are you still with me, BOSTON ?" ********!(ear piercing shriek coming from my mouth!) I had a ball. I met Violet and Blue, who drove down from Cincinatti, I met some fans who flew in from Minnesota. Lastly, STAND BACK! 12 twirls, she was her freekin' gorgeous, frisky, wailing best. I got no graphs, I didn't touch any one in the band, I wasn't in the front row. I watched, I danced, I sang along, I had the time of my life.

OOPS! Those marked people were MENTAL! Maybe the marker lady could sense something in them. They were loyal to their seats (Heh! they ARE gonna be on TV) and they ROCKED! It was a frenzy of hands flying and clapping and waving. They were hysterical. Outasight, man.

Rated "5" by Karen Donnelly aka Nicksrox

As always...Amazing. I remember when I was 18 years old and heard Lindsey was leaving Fleetwood Mac...I couldn't stop crying. Now 16 years later Fleetwood Mac still makes me cry. There were probably 800 people at the show but you would have never known that-the crowd was GREAT! Those 800 people were louder than my hometown crowd at the Pepsi Arena in Albany NY (sorry Albany but you guys were lame)

Can't wait to see the PBS special!