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Pink Grease’s Machine (and its toothbrush)

We mentioned flamboyant 2000s party starters Pink Grease in our post last week about post-glam glam albums, and one of the most endearing things about them was that band member Nick Collier wielded a colossal home-built synthesizer called The Machine. The thing was the size of a suitcase and sported a bewildering array of knobs and dials, but the key to its unusual sound was a toothbrush, which Collier used… well, we’re not really sure how he used it, to be honest, but he was never seen without it, as far as we recall. You can see The Machine, along with its inventor and his toothbrush, in the still used for the video above.