Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Former Jehovah's Witnesses. This Jehovah's Witness elder became a blues rocker.
Watch Witness Underground: WitnessUnderground.com
Apple TV - Amazon - Tubi TV - YouTube
Watch & Support:
vimeo.com/ondemand/witnessunderground
Patreon.com/WitnessUnderground
YouTube.com/@bananaislandfilms
Gary Alt Special interview. Former Elder in Jehovah's Witnesses. He was even a long-time "Bethelite," a worker at their world headquarters Watchtower (book publishing company masquerading as a religion). One of his contributions while there was cultural. He was asked to host a monthly music entertainment night at Bethel.
Blues artist Gary Alt, offered a brand new Violin as a raffle entrance to anyone who contributed to our Kickstarter for the NUCLEAR GOPHER SUPER PACKAGE: 33 albums, 9 ebooks, film with extras, and Soundtrack (2.5 hours). Gary was a huge support from the beginning of our campaign and he's doing great work.
Check out his songs:
"Here are a handful of songs you might be interested in. The "still IN" songs variously have something to do with my exiting the JWs.
Falling Down (still IN) vocal by Jayway
youtube.com/watch?v=Tl__9Y2BJq8
Bleed For You (still IN) vocal by Jayway
youtube.com/watch?v=USzsewK8WZs
Spin (still IN)
youtube.com/watch?v=8poJf5pTzxE
Whatever (still IN) (I knew this wasn't a good song when I did it, but I needed one more for my album Not For Sale To Minors and wanted it to be raw-sounding - deliberately done with the angst and minimalist values of John Lennon's early solo recordings)
youtube.com/watch?v=LjOZPqdskaA
Never Ending Always (OUT) vocal by Lori Klein (written for my novel, Force of Will which used the pseudonym Tan Swiftwater - there's an interesting story to the song)
youtube.com/watch?v=JbRK0HbqMiM
This Holy Day (OUT) vocal by post-JW Gayann from NY
youtube.com/watch?v=1OMPcoB9vL0
Wake Up (OUT) vocal by post-JW Emma-Jade Mechen, daughter of Shane, from New Zealand
youtube.com/watch?v=1LAjNwRe6Gw
Anything else you might be interested in may be found on Spotify or whatever, by searching for "Gary Alt" and the following album names, all done when I was still in:
-Tribute
-(Not) For Sale To Minors
-Beef Wellington and the Mad Cows - Masticated Bovine (joint project with JW friend Jayway when I was in)
-Gift of Projection (EP that predicted Art of Survival but has only 2 songs in common with it)
-Art of Survival (my best IMO)
And a couple of relatively recent extra songs that are not on any album:
-Shine a Light
-The Moon is Broken Tonight
-Western Lady - vocal by Rick Barth (YouTube only, not actually released)
-Color Wind (demo only)
One more that was written FOR the JWs back when I was doing that. I now reinterpret the words to mean something else. If I'm not playing with an instrumentalist for the whistle solo, I sing additional new lyrics in the bridge:
Back in the Free World - vocal by Larry Hayden
youtube.com/watch?v=3g0Ch6YYMeg"
Witness Underground is the only film to humanize cult life & survival via self-expression.
Within the confines of an elusive cult, a vibrant alternative music community thrived, deprogramming themselves through art. Poignant live performances punctuate tragic losses to beautifully illuminate shunning by Jehovah's Witnesses. 🚀
We successfully hit our goal on Kickstarter to release Witness Underground, thanks to your support and shares and the hard work of Gary Alt and our global collaborative team.
Reach out directly XJWdoc@gmail.com
-Scott
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
Watch Next: "Cult members speak out Rock the Watchtower Cult Awareness Conference - WITNESS UNDERGROUND highlight"
youtube.com/watch?v=s2tYsA9nIXY
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
Former Jehovah's Witnesses. This Jehovah's Witness elder became a blues rocker.
Watch Witness Underground: WitnessUnderground.com
Apple TV - Amazon - Tubi TV - YouTube
Watch & Support:
vimeo.com/ondemand/witnessunderground
Patreon.com/WitnessUnderground
YouTube.com/@bananaislandfilms
Gary Alt Special interview. Former Elder in Jehovah's Witnesses. He was even a long-time "Bethelite," a worker at their world headquarters Watchtower (book publishing company masquerading as a religion). One of his contributions while there was cultural. He was asked to host a monthly music entertainment night at Bethel.
Blues artist Gary Alt, offered a brand new Violin as a raffle entrance to anyone who contributed to our Kickstarter for the NUCLEAR GOPHER SUPER PACKAGE: 33 albums, 9 ebooks, film with extras, and Soundtrack (2.5 hours). Gary was a huge support from the beginning of our campaign and he's doing great work.
Check out his songs:
"Here are a handful of songs you might be interested in. The "still IN" songs variously have something to do with my exiting the JWs.
Falling Down (still IN) vocal by Jayway
youtube.com/watch?v=Tl__9Y2BJq8
Bleed For You (still IN) vocal by Jayway
youtube.com/watch?v=USzsewK8WZs
Spin (still IN)
youtube.com/watch?v=8poJf5pTzxE
Whatever (still IN) (I knew this wasn't a good song when I did it, but I needed one more for my album Not For Sale To Minors and wanted it to be raw-sounding - deliberately done with the angst and minimalist values of John Lennon's early solo recordings)
youtube.com/watch?v=LjOZPqdskaA
Never Ending Always (OUT) vocal by Lori Klein (written for my novel, Force of Will which used the pseudonym Tan Swiftwater - there's an interesting story to the song)
youtube.com/watch?v=JbRK0HbqMiM
This Holy Day (OUT) vocal by post-JW Gayann from NY
youtube.com/watch?v=1OMPcoB9vL0
Wake Up (OUT) vocal by post-JW Emma-Jade Mechen, daughter of Shane, from New Zealand
youtube.com/watch?v=1LAjNwRe6Gw
Anything else you might be interested in may be found on Spotify or whatever, by searching for "Gary Alt" and the following album names, all done when I was still in:
-Tribute
-(Not) For Sale To Minors
-Beef Wellington and the Mad Cows - Masticated Bovine (joint project with JW friend Jayway when I was in)
-Gift of Projection (EP that predicted Art of Survival but has only 2 songs in common with it)
-Art of Survival (my best IMO)
And a couple of relatively recent extra songs that are not on any album:
-Shine a Light
-The Moon is Broken Tonight
-Western Lady - vocal by Rick Barth (YouTube only, not actually released)
-Color Wind (demo only)
One more that was written FOR the JWs back when I was doing that. I now reinterpret the words to mean something else. If I'm not playing with an instrumentalist for the whistle solo, I sing additional new lyrics in the bridge:
Back in the Free World - vocal by Larry Hayden
youtube.com/watch?v=3g0Ch6YYMeg"
Witness Underground is the only film to humanize cult life & survival via self-expression.
Within the confines of an elusive cult, a vibrant alternative music community thrived, deprogramming themselves through art. Poignant live performances punctuate tragic losses to beautifully illuminate shunning by Jehovah's Witnesses. 🚀
We successfully hit our goal on Kickstarter to release Witness Underground, thanks to your support and shares and the hard work of Gary Alt and our global collaborative team.
Reach out directly XJWdoc@gmail.com
-Scott
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
Watch Next: "Cult members speak out Rock the Watchtower Cult Awareness Conference - WITNESS UNDERGROUND highlight"
youtube.com/watch?v=s2tYsA9nIXY
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
