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Boston Globe 11/20/92 article about the _Shine On_ boxed set
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Pink Floyd loads everything
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into one holiday package
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by Steve Morse
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New boxed sets are flooding the market for the holidays.
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They're coming from Talking Heads, Jefferson Airplane,
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Hank Williams Jr., the Troggs, Buck Owens, Johnny Cash,
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and many others. But none is a more massive project than
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Pink Floyd's "Shine On", an eight-CD box that you'll
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need a wheelbarrow for transporting home.
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"If you're going to do a boxed set, you might as well do
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it properly," Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour says
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dry-wittedly in a phone interview from London. The set
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contains seven previous Floyd albums, plus a separate
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CD of singles and rare B-sides. It's expected to retail
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at close to [US]$150.
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"The record company thought the price would be too high
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and wanted us to do a smaller box, but we really thought
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this would be an extremely good package for fans," says
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Gilmour. "I took it on myself to find all the original
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masters. There was a lot of crawling through vaults to
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get them. But everything's been remastered and I'm very
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pleased with it. Of course, there are some tracks that
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I still can't abide, but now I can't abide them in fuller
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living stereo."
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Unlike some boxed sets, though, this one is not stocked
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with previously-unreleased tracks. "Everything we could
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possibly use, has already been used," says Gilmour.
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Another sidelight to the box is that it's all been
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approved by former member Roger Waters, who had sued
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several years ago to try to prevent Gilmour and fellow
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Floyd members Richard Wright and Nick Mason from using
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the name. "It's still pretty unpleasant," says Gilmour.
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"But Roger is still a shareholder in Pink Floyd business."
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Meanwhile, Gilmour has returned to his hobbies of "flying
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airplanes and playing with cars a bit." As for the
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prospect of new Floyd music, he says, "Plans are pretty
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loose at the moment. Don't hold your breath. We're
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starting to play around at the moment, but that's just
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the moment. But when we do come back, you can be sure
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it will be another extravaganza. That seems to be the
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only way we know how to do it."
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