Dougie MacLean - The Gael
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2008
- From the premiere performance of Dougie MacLean's composition "The Search" at Perthshire Amber - The Dougie MacLean Festival 2007. You may recognise this as the fiddle tune from the film The Last of the Mohicans. Composed by Dougie Macean and published by Limetree Arts and Music (MCPS & PRS UK)
if you hear on the news a man seen running down the road, jumping over gutters and cars, with a musket in hand, wearing headphones, looking for a damsel in distress, its just me after a few scotches listening to this on repeat. makes me all sad and uplifted and peaceful and anxious all at once..i swear my heart beats faster and i listen to 70's punk to classical and no one piece of music makes me feel like this.. mightn't suit but play it at my funeral.
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Native American blood, Irish, Scottish, English, yes me too my Irish eyes are crying 💚 I think it's a primal thing 🥲
This song was played at funeral in Mexico in the deep Chihuahuan desert as the coffin was lowered to the earth. It's melody has reached that far. Amazing.
We used the version from Last of the Mohicans for our wedding procession. It was amazing seeing my wife come down the aisle to this music.
Us as well 😁
this is one of the best tunes composed by man, it will echo through centuries to come
agreed! just amazing!
hi me 11 years later
Agree !
Best theme ever made !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As soon as the violen kicks in , ihave this sudden urge to do something HEROIC.
Yeah me to..Like run through the woods hunting some wild animals.
Exactly! Like go lift up a car or cut down a tree with a herring!
You feel inspired to insane acts of heroism?
...try the version arranged by these fellas......
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I ponder the thought of civil war as I hear this.
Dougie a great fiddle player🎵🎶🎻
This is the absolute original. Doughie McLean. Save it. Preserve it
why does Dougie not get more recognition ??
Well he is an OBE pretty high recognition in the UK
Celts know him.
As someone with both Choctaw Native American and Scottish ancestry this song speaks to me on so many levels!! Love it! 💛
Its a great song
I mentioned to someone else there is a strong connection with the native Americans and the Scots www.amazon.co.uk/Glencoe-Indians-James-Hunter/dp/184596540X
Me as well.....Abenaki and Irish/Scottish. Great song.
hazzah for your diverse blood line... I am Anglo....but i play didgeridoo fiddle guitar, I feel your pride
🤣😂
I've heard countless versions of this song, played the 10 hour version and listened to it all the way through and yet... The second the violin starts in this version I get goosebumps. Crazy.
"This"version?? you mean proper one? original? jeezo
@boredweegie553 Actually, this was a live version from 2007, quite different from the original 1990 version that was released on Dougie MacLean’s album The Search. There’s no reason to assume @Brigand231 hasn’t heard the original cut but prefers the live version. Whatever the case, it was this version that rang true for them, so kudos to them for knowing the real deal when they heard it. And you have a problem with that? Jeezo
This is a very important recording. What an incredible find. Best version of The Gael.
I hiked half (1100 miles) of the appalachian trail. This melody was in my head (and heart) on every assent.
'Last of the Mohicans' and imdb brought me here - nice to hear the original, and all credit to the composer!
Same same
@@nicovds I really wish people would ascribe this piece properly. It is not he Last of the Mohicans or the Highlander. Give credit where it is due. Listen to "The Osprey" by this dandy musician.
This love performance is the best version of the song point blank period . Sometimes great songs sound better in studio but this is hands down my favorite. Excellent composer
Love this version. Different from the original on his album, The Search, 1990. Just love Dougie. 🏴💙
@@nicovds Sorry, what d'you mean?
The best piece of the gael, I ever heard. Thanks Dougie MacLean. You made a universal melody. ❤
The Gael and Dougie Maclean's violin sets a fire within me! Only genius can reach that place in us!👏❤️
Started lining the bed doug
Came here for the original. Q-hacks are monopolizing the well-known rendition. They don't know the original source! Dougie, you'll always be one of the greats.
This song stirs something very deep in my soul... It's like I can hear my/our great-great-great grandfathers + mothers... calling us home to some ancient land and way of knowing and living... a land before time, when we walked freely across the portals of time and space + lived harmoniously with ALL things. THANK YOU Dougie MacLean!!!
Lo mismo siento, pero en español
Good description marla. I feel the same.
I feel the same!!
Sounds great , i could only imagine - perfect!
Marla - partly due to the incredible chord progression and that haunting fiddle. And the beautiful, simple drum beat.
I had no clue that this was the origin of the song on The Last of the Mohicans! Such an emotional song!
Amazing! Thanks Dougie MacLean for this great unforgettable composition!
This ignites something in my DNA
Real talk
Warrior , voyager , lover , part time sinner
What a glorious piece of music.
Makes you proud to be Scottish.
or just plain redheaded Celtic 👨🦰
This was the basis for the award winning sound and theme for The Last Of The Mohicans, incredible movie, incredible soundtrack. And this is awesome
A tune for a battle and a love scene in the same film. How clever is that.
this song should be for all the world .amazingggggg
God bless Clan Douglas and Clan MacLean☦️🏴🏴🏴✝️
and Clan MacRae
"The gael" is the best music i have ever heard💓💓
what a great song. greetings from germany.
Prost !
@@scrimmy45 Cheers Andrew
You just get lost in this song.... How can one not...
Beautiful 💚
Well done Dougie. Scotland's best songwriter.
one of the greatest tracks i have ever listened to
very epic sounding but so simple. the guy is a genius
The greatest......
My mother’s ancestors are from the Appalachians of the US, many of the families of that region are from a Scottish and Irish decent. You can hear the connection between this music and American blue grass. We evolve and change over time, but carry our roots forward. Beautiful music to touch the soul.
Yes,,,The fiddle/violin mimics the pipes in a way...
Great comment. Always learning.
scotch-irish, or as they call themselves, ulster scots are not scottish and irish, they are descendants of english/scots speaking lowlands who colonised northern ireland. They are not descended from the irish highlanders nor the "indigenous" irish.
@@user-su4vr1qt9m
If they lived in the lowlands of Scotland they're still Scottish despite your attempt at rewriting a geographical area.
Beyond that you're crossing the border into England which makes them very much English and not Scottish.
@@user-su4vr1qt9m Most of the original Ulster Scots were brought or sent there by the British, who defeated the Scots and were busy trying to subdue the Irish. Much suffering ensued as a result, among both the Irish and the immigrant Scots. The irony is that in prehistoric times, the Scots migrated *from* Ireland to what’s now Scotland. So those populations have been mixing it up for millennia.
Brilliant, slightly raw , live sound. Great tune. And atmosphere.
To my ears Dougie's version is still the best, could listen to it all day.
Err. He wrote it
@@ly055sco Yeah and the original is on his album, The Search, 1990. Slightly different again.
That's because it's his music he wrote it.
God, can’t get enough of this tune!!
@@dannetterousseau4095 Only spent a day there so can't say for sure. The name is great though!
Superb scottish music. Excellent !!! regards from Athens
The true power, and BEAUTY of music!
Emotions exploding, everything, everyone…Love.
I've searched all of youtube, and this is by far the most amazing performance of his compilation, that's been recorded. None of the studio tracks sound like this. Kinda Ironic it's been shot on an old camera phone, this may be the only footage of it. Sitting in 2020 without any large scale musics events in the future makes me wonder what it was like when this was played. Simply incredible
Hi, here's another good performance, that'll not occur again. UA-cam video: Arthur Lee & Love - Seven & Seven (Live at Glastonbury 2003)
It's the best because it's the original being played by the composer himself. The Gael has really nothing to do with the film other than it's the signature tune. I love Dougies' music. He's well loved here in Scotland.
@@carolstrachan4197 I agree, hearing the song performed by the man who wrote it, and who heard it directly from the Muses themselves, is incomparable. May Dougie enjoy an extended life span because of the amount of lives his work has touched in a positive way, including my own. 💖
the gael is one of my favourite tunes of all time....Dougie is a legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!
amazing Scotland should be so proud
Thank you, Dougie MacLean.. You have inspired more music in me than most artists put together.
Finally got who the masterpiece is
wonderful piece. I've never heard a song say so much without any words.
i really feel movement in my chest and in the back of my head every time with this
It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Takes you to another place! amazing!
I like all of Dougie's music. this is one of my favorites along with Caledonia
Dougie, my distant cousin brings out my Highland heart with this stirring song. Mo Cuishle !
This song has always spoken to me, never heard the original version. Absolutely blown away.
They use this great theme in The Last of the Mohicans and wow. Now I know why it stirs up so many emotions in me. I'm a Scot
Yes!
i can just not stop listening to this song! its THE perfect music that can re-vitalize any body.
11 years ago...are u still alive ?
Written by a scots, awesome peice, Dougie MacLean. Love it !!!
Constantly on repeat! Fantastic Gaelic Music. Awesome sound, full of emotion.
5 times of listening to this and my back pain is gone!
It is the song that I love, adore and every time I listen it take me to the place of heart,
immediately, place of courage from heart and than I know - I can do everything what I wont! All my respect to D. Maclean.
after 30 years when I first saw the masterpiece I learned that the song was written from this very piece we are talking about the supreme piece that ever came out on planet earth
Many people, it seems, came to Dougie's music via the movie Last of the Mohicans. I went to see the movie because I knew Dougie's music was in it. While the movie captivated me, I kept waiting for The Gael.
This should be the National Anthem...............
Goosebumps
Dougie great job from Hong Kong 🇭🇰
i am so glad that people discover this music has a scottish origin.. After soon 30 years since the movie (early 90s) ..? But thank's to that "Last of the mohicans" we haven't heard of this this much after all..? ;)
One, four, five...so simple, tension and release, atonal and melodic. This is one of the finest songs I've ever heard. Absolutely amazing.
Thumbs up (10 years late) for the profile picture alone!
One of my favourite pieces of Scottish music and this really touches my heart and soul.
It sounds so Scottish to me - I am an incomer. It grabs me somewhere inside myself.
Andrew Donald go check the comments on videos from other places of the same tune 😂😂😂 they think it's native American 😂😂😂
i am from india and i have no right to be talking, but somehow this song takes me everywhere i want to go in nostalgia
Craig Valentine - no doubt many do.I had the great pleasure of meeting the man himself on a ferry to Islay a couple
of years ago.
@@craigvalentine277 probably because it was written for an American movie about Native Americans. Only Scottish connection to The Gael is the writer
such an epic composition and all you get is over 200,000 hits.
This my favorite the Gael recording.
Found this because last night I had a dream I could play the fiddle and this was the tune I was ripping out the whole time; I imagined that my brother, the actual family musical genius, was impressed. It's so beautiful.
Truly magical !
This touches my soul!!!!Thumbs up to Dougie MacLean
Well I'll be dammed! How I've loved the melody over the last 3 decades without knowing it's orgin.. Only being familiar with Trevor Jones' composition...
How incredibly beautiful! There really are no words.. ❤❤❤❤❤ Just wow!
An awesome talent wee Dougie, one of my favourite pieces of music as Caledonia is a heart-string puller!
something ancient/ spiritual about this music, cant stop listen , thx
This version is amazing. The studio version is also very good too, its so ominous and foreboding, it really feels like the Loch Ness Monster is peacefully swimming through the Loch, and then came up to listen to the music!
Superb!
Geez what a fantastic musician... I'm in awe over here.
I was mesmerized...I couldn't take my eyes off from them...
Waw! Just wow!
It is so stunning. This music mesmerizes.
a truly sublime masterpiece, unfortunately can't we have a better resolution one
Quite a few of my ancestors on my mother's side of the family hailed from Clan MacDonald. This song stirs the Scot in me. Makes me want to find a MacDonald tartan kilt, paint my face with blue stripes down one side, and go kick some ass somewhere!
What an amazing tribute to the original song writer to have composers adapt it for the screen. To become one of the greatest Hollywood scores of all time. I’d call that a win!
So many versions are out there performed by orchestras, or bagpipers, this is my favorite! Rock on!
That's because it's not a version - it's the original :)
From IMDB: The main theme of the movie is taken from the tune "The Gael" by Scottish singer-songwriter Dougie MacLean on his 1990 album The Search.
Why does good music always make you cry?
@grykrmz MacLean's most famous pieces include "The Gael", from his 1990 album The Search, which was adapted by Trevor Jones as the main theme to the 1992 film Last of the Mohicans; and Caledonia, from his first album, which has been covered by numerous singers and groups.
I play this on my Norwegian fiddle, practising it on my uilleann pipes and still after listening to other's inspire to practice and compose more:::))) Thank you for the inspiration:::) Welcome to Australia
Where's your videos
Very beautiful and sensitive music.
Pride and Glory. Freedom or Death. This is what this wonderfull music says. Greetings from Hellas with respect.
judging by his surname you're closer than you think.☺Peace to all.
This Song EFFIN Rocks on so many levels...
I love this. Cheers from America. ❤
I feature this recording in
my book "Scottish Music Yearbook". The book takes the reader on a
year long journey through the music of Scottish composers.
this is the original artist for the tune from Mohicans. The composers of the soundtrack for the film did an awesome job remaking it for the big screen
when trevor put the fiddle in his connection i think it really blew it up it's still the best song ever put into a project in the world for me
This makes me wanna tip something over and smite my enemies. Love it!!!!
Don’t forget to pound the ale 🍺 before tipping the table 😆
I play this at least once a week, it stirs my soul❤️❤️❤️
Smite thine enemies then rejoice in your victory with a bumper of renish ..
Easy tiger, it's just a very good tune, well played. 🤣
Like RIcky Reynolds I had not idea that this was composed by Dougie MacLean!! My ignorance knows no bounds!! One of my favourite films!! Fantastic music!
Elaine Ness and he's a yesser 😂👍😁
Whenever that 🎻 plays I start to tear up every time it’s amazing. I love this song. LAST OF THE MOHICANS!!
It's nothing to do with that film except paying Dougie to use it. It's a Scottish song about the Gaels in Scotland & Ireland.
It's called The Gael. Not last of the mohicans!!!
@@carolstrachan4197 Nobody said the contrary.
@@davidwallace4416 So it does have something to do with the film.
@@sexysadie2901 LOL 😂 I guess it does then 👍
This tune sounds simple but it's seriously hard to play
Fantastic creation .
This is singularly the greatest video on UA-cam.
well it reaches my soul and moves me towards the dawn with renewed vigour and hope love you dougie for this in my life
Crying my eyes out. I am Clan Logan, we are here! God bless you Grams and Grandpa.
That’s my ringtone!!!!
I have heard this tune in many versions today, and I just cannot stop listening.
All this time it was the Caledonia King who wrote this wonderful song and I just found out today. I have had to put this song on every time I worked out to get myself out of pain from an accident. It would drive me to reach a higher limit and helped me to achieve success.
Ricky I use music to take me out of pain too especially stirring stuff, when a bad day happens I turn my music up loud no drugs just music.
This is my go to song for personal transformation through pain as well.
Ricky Reynolds more power to you.
Ricky Reynolds ‘
that's what I am doing to get some relief from pain :)
Awesome!,we're listening to this as we cross the border into Scotland,c'mon!!!!!!
Welcome!!
@@VeroniqueCG your hair is nice