Dougie MacLean - The Gael

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)

[@68kira]

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.

[@rogerward3185]

Best comment ever

[@Michelle-rb2mz]

Native American blood, Irish, Scottish, English, yes me too my Irish eyes are crying 💚 I think it's a primal thing 🥲

[@tranger4579]

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.

[@bigboaby555]

why does Dougie not get more recognition ??

[@n4nz00]

Well he is an OBE pretty high recognition in the UK

[@Misanthrope5]

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.

[@user-zo4ri4xp1c]

Us as well 😁

[@tintin-ij5lv]

This is the absolute original. Doughie McLean. Save it. Preserve it

[@shakin2009]

this is one of the best tunes composed by man, it will echo through centuries to come

[@nature_photography_yukon]

agreed! just amazing!

[@vistazopimp4650]

hi me 11 years later

[@DenisSanacore]

Agree !

[@psycheSNAKE]

Best theme ever made !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As soon as the violen kicks in , ihave this sudden urge to do something HEROIC.

[@enrayor2785]

Yeah me to..Like run through the woods hunting some wild animals.

[@speterlewis]

Exactly! Like go lift up a car or cut down a tree with a herring!

[@marioguidotomasone1265]

You feel inspired to insane acts of heroism? ...try the version arranged by these fellas...... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn7Lm6OApM1nnq8

[@DavidLopez-wg7eq]

I ponder the thought of civil war as I hear this.

[@bhs8732]

Dougie a great fiddle player🎵🎶🎻

[@Brigand231]

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.

[@boredweegie553]

"This"version?? you mean proper one? original? jeezo

[@kayamaggie11]

@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

[@stevecook413]

I hiked half (1100 miles) of the appalachian trail. This melody was in my head (and heart) on every assent.

[@DavidFlockhart]

A tune for a battle and a love scene in the same film. How clever is that.

[@tamlynn786]

As someone with both Choctaw Native American and Scottish ancestry this song speaks to me on so many levels!! Love it! 💛

[@blindchronicles9758]

Its a great song

[@Thundermuscle]

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

[@kikia6611]

Me as well.....Abenaki and Irish/Scottish. Great song.

[@cliffsandifer3877]

hazzah for your diverse blood line... I am Anglo....but i play didgeridoo fiddle guitar, I feel your pride

[@johnkruvoc]

🤣😂

[@njohns9847]

This is a very important recording. What an incredible find. Best version of The Gael.

[@inlandnw9754]

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.

[@golgothadiver]

'Last of the Mohicans' and imdb brought me here - nice to hear the original, and all credit to the composer!

[@nicovds]

Same same

[@sgtcrab2569]

@@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.

[@luiseduardo199]

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

[@carolstrachan4197]

Love this version. Different from the original on his album, The Search, 1990. Just love Dougie. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

[@carolstrachan4197]

@@nicovds Sorry, what d'you mean?

[@milzz100]

amazing Scotland should be so proud

[@amilaweerasinghe3874]

The best piece of the gael, I ever heard. Thanks Dougie MacLean. You made a universal melody. ❤

[@robertacolarette1594]

What a glorious piece of music.

[@eelsoirdor3573]

Amazing! Thanks Dougie MacLean for this great unforgettable composition!

[@1993dac]

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

[@HannsMartinSchleyer]

what a great song. greetings from germany.

[@scrimmy45]

Prost !

[@HannsMartinSchleyer]

@@scrimmy45 Cheers Andrew

[@hopkinsamye]

I had no clue that this was the origin of the song on The Last of the Mohicans! Such an emotional song!

[@janehardisty1002]

The Gael and Dougie Maclean's violin sets a fire within me! Only genius can reach that place in us!👏❤️

[@samkeenan5496]

Started lining the bed doug

[@johnnydtheprodigy3047]

This ignites something in my DNA

[@TheAngryHippie]

Real talk

[@luiseduardo199]

Warrior , voyager , lover , part time sinner

[@thomasbernecky2078]

Well done Dougie. Scotland's best songwriter.

[@elhoussine]

this song should be for all the world .amazingggggg

[@pattyyuraitis5071]

You just get lost in this song.... How can one not... Beautiful 💚

[@suzannedarroch1149]

Goosebumps

[@1950boots]

Superb!

[@waterdog226]

It is so stunning. This music mesmerizes.

[@101MRSPICE]

Dougie great job from Hong Kong 🇭🇰

[@newstoryinstitute]

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!!!

[@Trehvorr]

Lo mismo siento, pero en español

[@ErinsProjects]

Good description marla. I feel the same.

[@ruchisharma667]

I feel the same!!

[@joycamposvillanueva3109]

Sounds great , i could only imagine - perfect!

[@scrimmy45]

Marla - partly due to the incredible chord progression and that haunting fiddle. And the beautiful, simple drum beat.

[@hiphopapotamus69]

the gael is one of my favourite tunes of all time....Dougie is a legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lonewolf9390]

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!

[@sankhanow]

such an epic composition and all you get is over 200,000 hits.

[@spirospapadiotis1395]

Superb scottish music. Excellent !!! regards from Athens

[@kasbekensemble7976]

5 times of listening to this and my back pain is gone!

[@NnnHyyu]

"The gael" is the best music i have ever heard💓💓

[@originalpauper]

Why does good music always make you cry?

[@michaelkennedy4346]

This is singularly the greatest video on KZbin.

[@bean4u]

Dougie, my distant cousin brings out my Highland heart with this stirring song. Mo Cuishle !

[@TheScunneredMan]

Brilliant, slightly raw , live sound. Great tune. And atmosphere.

[@nature_photography_yukon]

Takes you to another place! amazing!

[@Saiaix]

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.

[@timleith3794]

God, can’t get enough of this tune!!

[@timleith3794]

@@dannetterousseau4095 Only spent a day there so can't say for sure. The name is great though!

[@HudsonAO8TQ1]

one of the greatest tracks i have ever listened to very epic sounding but so simple. the guy is a genius

[@user-zt1cm2xy9c]

The greatest......

[@archeye1948]

The true power, and BEAUTY of music! Emotions exploding, everything, everyone…Love.

[@Amanda-gg6kz]

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!

[@aileenr.692]

Makes you proud to be Scottish.

[@rjwintl]

or just plain redheaded Celtic 👨‍🦰

[@DenisSanacore]

Truly magical !

[@anahitathuk]

i can just not stop listening to this song! its THE perfect music that can re-vitalize any body.

[@jayakrishnan26]

11 years ago...are u still alive ?

[@lzollars]

This my favorite the Gael recording.

[@Tydyd1]

Thank you, Dougie MacLean.. You have inspired more music in me than most artists put together.

[@JonathanFisherS]

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

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

Hi, here's another good performance, that'll not occur again. KZbin video: Arthur Lee & Love - Seven & Seven (Live at Glastonbury 2003)

[@carolstrachan4197]

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.

[@Amanda-gg6kz]

​@@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. 💖

[@Cathye3]

Written by a scots, awesome peice, Dougie MacLean. Love it !!!

[@Nartarajan]

i really feel movement in my chest and in the back of my head every time with this

[@stewartneilson2621]

It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

[@storydale]

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.

[@user-zt1cm2xy9c]

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

[@emrahkorkmaz87]

Very beautiful and sensitive music.

[@electronaut6240]

This song has always spoken to me, never heard the original version. Absolutely blown away.

[@74motherearth]

something ancient/ spiritual about this music, cant stop listen , thx

[@GhostTownOutdoors]

One, four, five...so simple, tension and release, atonal and melodic. This is one of the finest songs I've ever heard. Absolutely amazing.

[@theweedevil2462]

Thumbs up (10 years late) for the profile picture alone!

[@jerrymorales56]

This Song EFFIN Rocks on so many levels...

[@joycamposvillanueva3109]

Waw! Just wow!

[@mrzdavid]

Great stuff.

[@rogerscott9332]

To my ears Dougie's version is still the best, could listen to it all day.

[@ly055sco]

Err. He wrote it

[@carolstrachan4197]

@@ly055sco Yeah and the original is on his album, The Search, 1990. Slightly different again.

[@RIHANNON66POE]

That's because it's his music he wrote it.

[@leiper72]

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..? ;)

[@ripplefargo]

Geez what a fantastic musician... I'm in awe over here.

[@a75du45]

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.

[@Niseold]

Yes,,,The fiddle/violin mimics the pipes in a way...

[@bodaichlicious]

Great comment. Always learning.

[@user-su4vr1qt9m]

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.

[@YautjaPrime-gw1on]

​@@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.

[@Historian212]

@@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.

[@lorim2000]

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!

[@jimpomac]

An awesome talent wee Dougie, one of my favourite pieces of music as Caledonia is a heart-string puller!

[@tomlivingstone715]

I like all of Dougie's music. this is one of my favorites along with Caledonia

[@firtay82]

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!

[@lolady85]

I was mesmerized...I couldn't take my eyes off from them...

[@lindamoorey3460]

This touches my soul!!!!Thumbs up to Dougie MacLean

[@richardpeacock9961]

Constantly on repeat! Fantastic Gaelic Music. Awesome sound, full of emotion.

[@kathlynterry8196]

That’s my ringtone!!!!

[@inlikeflynn7238]

wonderful piece. I've never heard a song say so much without any words.

[@stlouisix3]

God bless Clan Douglas and Clan MacLean☦️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✝️

[@stlouisix3]

and Clan MacRae

[@grichards9346]

Just heard this done with bagpipes, awesome

[@keehooigoay8088]

a truly sublime masterpiece, unfortunately can't we have a better resolution one

[@MrGazzyp]

Fantastic tune - what great mucisians...

[@NickTheGreek1386]

Pride and Glory. Freedom or Death. This is what this wonderfull music says. Greetings from Hellas with respect.

[@ianmclean8953]

judging by his surname you're closer than you think.☺Peace to all.

[@Attreyu10]

.......no words. Amazing song.

[@martin1226]

Crying my eyes out. I am Clan Logan, we are here! God bless you Grams and Grandpa.

[@KAILASHKUMAR-dr8ku]

Fantastic creation .

[@mrsmotte]

thank you to youtube fans! because of you it was recommended i listen to dougie. WOW. i will tell everyone to enjoy this talented group.

[@LukeLovesRose]

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

[@leiper72]

Yes!

[@sanjagerovac5116]

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.

[@awaisakram6458]

I love this so much

[@mckenzies11]

@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.

[@ncwetkovic]

I have heard this tune in many versions today, and I just cannot stop listening.

[@kakughakakugha3532]

Finally got who the masterpiece is

[@Cicikoma]

first I was like, "damn, he played it just as if it was playback!".....but then it reminded me that he's playing his own song :) Thanx for composing my favorite song since I was 8! (I'm 31 today) :D

[@jayakrishnan26]

You must be 39 today 😂

[@ianwattsOfficial]

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

[@jayakrishnan26]

Where's your videos

[@debh6304]

This is incredible!,

[@MaroonCamaro]

I wish there was a way for me to get this live version. I absolutely love it. Great song and this is by far the best rendition of The Gael I've heard.

[@ItsUp2Us]

Thank you.... Thank U Tube for demonstrating real music is still alive (here in America it has beem all but beaten to death). Thank you Dunkeldrecords for sharing Dougie McClean. Traditional Celtic married to contemporary sensibilities (overdue or hidden from - well at least my view. Thank you - thank you - thank you

[@dlagrua]

This composition just crys out for liberty, and defense of freedom.

[@smarttgirl]

I love this. Cheers from America. ❤

[@marcd.michel5328]

mit Abstand die beste Version dieses legendären songs!