Doug Johnson

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!

I actually could provide some video sources from youtube but they are too grainy to really make out what it is since the CS-50 looks a lot like the CS-80.....

The Key source of proving that he used as CS-50 on the first record is this from this forum post....

Re: Loverboy - Take Me To The Top phat intro by pognoot » Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:45 am Me thinks it was a CS-50 because that's what Doug toured with, and its also what he used for Turn Me Loose. The CS-50 is a four-voice instrument, which is why all the voices stay in perfect sync when he does the glissando thing at the beginning. He's holding a 4 note chord. I have a CS-80 and while it works, it's never quite as smooth.

Also at this link is a post from another forum taken from a 1982 magazine article that I cannot find printed anywhere on the internet as to what synths Doug used in the early 80's.

http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/1188743/Re_loverboy_keyboards

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 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!

According to a old magazine excript posted on the forums provided as proof, Doug Johnson used 2 Prophet 5s in Loverboy, I'm guessing this was during or after the Get Lucky era.

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