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The story of the GreenHouse effect, like the band’s music itself, is infused with heartbreak and hope, tragedy and redemption. Twins Penton and Phillip Greenstein were inseparable since birth. Best friends as well as brothers, the pair would spend long Gold Coast afternoons playing sports together before returning home to sit by their newly bought tape player and listen to rare Slint and Rodan demos. In 1998 the teenagers lived out a dream when asked to act as roadies on the band June of 44’s first and only tour of Australia. However on only the tour’s second night tragedy struck when an innocent prank resulted in a 10 foot amp stack toppling on an unsuspecting Phil and striking him on the head. He was hospitalized for several days. When he finally awoke his brain function and speech were severely hindered. Worse still surgeons had been unable to replace the frontal lobe of his damaged skull, leaving an unresponsive Phil with an exposed brain for the rest of his life. Rendered a