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.
The original version is far better because in this version is poor ! Once it gets past that & picks up it's better, but not nearly as polished as the original - sigh !
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.
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 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
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!
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.
@@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
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 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!!!
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
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!
THIS SONG GOES TO THE SOUL OF ALL HEAR IT. A MELODY THAT DRIVES US FORWARD FROM THE HEART OF THE BEAT. THE MOST MOVING FEELING THROUGH OR BODIES AS IT LIFTS US. A CLASIC ABOVE ALL CLASSIC. Susan
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!
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
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. 💖
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..? ;)
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.
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.
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.
@@ЧеловекЧеловек-ф4ч 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.
@@ЧеловекЧеловек-ф4ч 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.
Idk who’s playing this astonishingly gorgeously arranged melodious masterpiece it stirs my soul to uncontrollable tears! Every single time! God I love this music!
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
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
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.
@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.
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
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.
A tune for a battle and a love scene in the same film. How clever is that.
All is fair in love and war.... Love is war .....
This is the absolute original. Doughie McLean. Save it. Preserve it
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.
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 !
The original version is far better because in this version is poor ! Once it gets past that & picks up it's better, but not nearly as polished as the original - sigh !
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 😁
I played this song everynight I went to bed from 1992 to 1995 til my ex-wife destroyed my cd. That's why she's my ex. lol 😁😁😁😁
It is so stunning. This music mesmerizes.
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......
th-cam.com/video/xMhjpJoh4hM/w-d-xo.html
I ponder the thought of civil war as I hear this.
Dougie a great fiddle player🎵🎶🎻
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.
Best comment ever
Native American blood, Irish, Scottish, English, yes me too my Irish eyes are crying 💚 I think it's a primal thing 🥲
Me 4 whiskey deep finding this song and comment.....I'm right behind ya
A sentiment most people understand hearing this music.
COMPARTO TU SENTIMIENTO.....😊😊😊
why does Dougie not get more recognition ??
Well he is an OBE pretty high recognition in the UK
Celts know him.
If you look on you tube most people think its an american indian tune quite funny, they dont even know its called the gael😊
God bless Clan Douglas and Clan MacLean☦️🏴🏴🏴✝️
and Clan MacRae
5 times of listening to this and my back pain is gone!
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.
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!
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.
I had no clue that this was the origin of the song on The Last of the Mohicans! Such an emotional song!
Dougie, my distant cousin brings out my Highland heart with this stirring song. Mo Cuishle !
'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?
Amazing! Thanks Dougie MacLean for this great unforgettable composition!
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
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 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.
The best piece of the gael, I ever heard. Thanks Dougie MacLean. You made a universal melody. ❤
Such a legendary piece of music. ❤ Met you in Montreal in 1992 at The Centaur Dougie. I hope you are keeping well mate.
What a glorious piece of music.
I love this..the original always the best
Superb scottish music. Excellent !!! regards from Athens
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
🤣😂
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
I hiked half (1100 miles) of the appalachian trail. This melody was in my head (and heart) on every assent.
this song should be for all the world .amazingggggg
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!
THIS SONG GOES TO THE SOUL OF ALL HEAR IT. A MELODY THAT DRIVES US FORWARD FROM THE HEART OF THE BEAT. THE MOST MOVING FEELING THROUGH OR BODIES AS IT LIFTS US. A CLASIC ABOVE ALL CLASSIC. Susan
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!
what a great song. greetings from germany.
Prost !
@@scrimmy45 Cheers Andrew
Why does good music always make you cry?
Sounds by comments I have struck gold. I would agree. Fantastic track.
love from srilanka 💙 ආදරෙයි 🌼
one of the greatest tracks i have ever listened to
very epic sounding but so simple. the guy is a genius
The greatest......
This is singularly the greatest video on TH-cam.
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. TH-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. 💖
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..? ;)
Thank you, Dougie MacLean.. You have inspired more music in me than most artists put together.
You just get lost in this song.... How can one not...
Beautiful 💚
amazing Scotland should be so proud
This ignites something in my DNA
Real talk
Warrior , voyager , lover , part time sinner
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!
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.
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.
That’s my ringtone!!!!
Fantastic!
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!
Truly magical !
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.
@@ЧеловекЧеловек-ф4ч
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.
@@ЧеловекЧеловек-ф4ч 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.
the gael is one of my favourite tunes of all time....Dougie is a legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this. Love from Türkiye!
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.
Well done Dougie. Scotland's best songwriter.
This my favorite the Gael recording.
This one hit Zeitgeist, indelible in many minds and souls
such an epic composition and all you get is over 200,000 hits.
"The gael" is the best music i have ever heard💓💓
Dougie great job from Hong Kong 🇭🇰
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.
I like all of Dougie's music. this is one of my favorites along with Caledonia
The true power, and BEAUTY of music!
Emotions exploding, everything, everyone…Love.
Takes you to another place! amazing!
God that’s so badass.
Makes you proud to be Scottish.
or just plain redheaded Celtic 👨🦰
Idk who’s playing this astonishingly gorgeously arranged melodious masterpiece it stirs my soul to uncontrollable tears! Every single time! God I love this music!
Written by a scots, awesome peice, Dougie MacLean. Love it !!!
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
Awesome
wonderful piece. I've never heard a song say so much without any words.
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
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
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 ?
This Song EFFIN Rocks on so many levels...
Constantly on repeat! Fantastic Gaelic Music. Awesome sound, full of emotion.
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.
This song has always spoken to me, never heard the original version. Absolutely blown away.
something ancient/ spiritual about this music, cant stop listen , thx
Brilliant, slightly raw , live sound. Great tune. And atmosphere.
@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.
That's freaking awesome
Dougie MacLean composed "The Gael" (1990), which became the main theme to the 1992 film The Last of the Mohicans
And the rest is history.
This touches my soul!!!!Thumbs up to Dougie MacLean
a truly sublime masterpiece, unfortunately can't we have a better resolution one
Goosebumps
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
Waw! Just wow!
An awesome talent wee Dougie, one of my favourite pieces of music as Caledonia is a heart-string puller!
Geez what a fantastic musician... I'm in awe over here.
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.
Crying my eyes out. I am Clan Logan, we are here! God bless you Grams and Grandpa.
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 :)
Superb!
.......no words. Amazing song.
Very beautiful and sensitive music.
I have heard this tune in many versions today, and I just cannot stop listening.