Doug Johnson

Here is a photo of Doug playing a Yamaha CS-50 during a 1982 live performance. You can tell it is a CS-50, and not a CS-80 by the panel layout.

A print from an article from 1982 posted on this forum. The Article cannot be found anywhere online. Says he has an SS-30 String Synth. I think this is the synth visible in the original music video for "Turn Me Loose" from 1981.

Quote: Originally posted by eric: I'm looking at the Nov 1982 issue now. There is a photo of Doug playing his rig and this is what he uses:

• Yamaha SS-30 String Synth
• Prophet 5 x 2
• Yamaha CS-50
• Yamaha CP-70
• Roland CE-1 Chorus

There is a part of the interview in which he is asked why he chose the CS-50 over the CS-80. He states that the "...CS-80 is huge and the 50 sits nicely onto my piano. CS-80s are beautiful instruments, but I don't want to have huge piles of keyboards all around."

Regards, Eric You're the man!

A Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 can clearly be seen below a Yamaha CS-50, as part of Doug’s rig from this 1982 live performance.

Just recently confirmed this through a video of Loverboy playing Westfalenhalle, Dortmund Germany in 1983 in the video provided. There's a really good closeup at 18:19 of Doug playing the CP70 on "Turn Me Loose".

Quote: Originally posted by eric: I'm looking at the Nov 1982 issue now. There is a photo of Doug playing his rig and this is what he uses:

• Yamaha SS-30 String Synth
• Prophet 5 x 2
• Yamaha CS-50
• Yamaha CP-70
• Roland CE-1 Chorus

There is a part of the interview in which he is asked why he chose the CS-50 over the CS-80. He states that the "...CS-80 is huge and the 50 sits nicely onto my piano. CS-80s are beautiful instruments, but I don't want to have huge piles of keyboards all around."

Regards, Eric You're the man!

Quote: Originally posted by eric: I'm looking at the Nov 1982 issue now. There is a photo of Doug playing his rig and this is what he uses:

• Yamaha SS-30 String Synth
• Prophet 5 x 2
• Yamaha CS-50
• Yamaha CP-70
• Roland CE-1 Chorus

There is a part of the interview in which he is asked why he chose the CS-50 over the CS-80. He states that the "...CS-80 is huge and the 50 sits nicely onto my piano. CS-80s are beautiful instruments, but I don't want to have huge piles of keyboards all around."

Regards, Eric

Doug Johnson, the keyboardist, has confirmed his use of the Fairlight CMI in an interview with Cherry Audio. He stated, "Believe it or not, I paid 35K for a Fairlight computer/synth/sampler, with the light pen and the whole nine yards. That would have been around 1983 or so. I used it a little; it could sample 8-bit for 1.5 seconds and store it on a humongous floppy disk. I leased it to a studio here in Vancouver, and then I sold it to a Belgian composer in 1989."

Doug can clearly be seen playing a Roland D-50, during this live performance from 1987. Can be seen at 0:25.

Doug can be seen playing a Roland D-50, and Yamaha DX7-IIFD, during this 1987 live performance. Can be seen at 0:25.