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Airbourne frontman Joel O'Keefe shares a hilarious story from his youth about dismantling his first practice amp and taping the speaker to his guitar case in an attempt to create a portable rig.

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00:00So now my guitar case had a big hole in it, which was weird.
00:02A teenage bedroom, I had an alarm clock that was green.
00:06I had a CD player and I had an ACDC box set I'd say I'd do my pocket money for.
00:14ACDC and there was a Black Sabbath one and Led Zeppelin double CD.
00:17This old wooden desk that I was supposed to do homework on.
00:20And then I had a little practice hand.
00:22A little D Markley.
00:23Volume, middle, treble.
00:25I'd put it all on ten.
00:26Drive was always on.
00:27Got to the point where I pulled the speaker out of it, cut a hole in my guitar case.
00:32Gaffer taped the speaker to the case and put my guitar in.
00:35It was like I've got an amp and a guitar in a case.
00:37I took it to school, my little amp and guitar case thing, so in the case.
00:41I was like, I think it sounds better through my amplifier again.
00:44So I took it back out of the guitar case and put my amp in my backpack.
00:48And I realised that the way that the amp, the cabinet, had been built
00:52was what was actually helping the sound because I was like it didn't sound as cool.

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