The American Ray Monette started his public career as a songwriter and musician in Detroit. In 1967 with an ephemeral band called 'The Abstract Reality', a 45 rpm single Love Burns Like A Fire Inside was released.[1][2] With Mike Campbell, Bob 'Babbitt' Kreinar, and Andrew Smith he formed Scorpion (1968-1970 band). His name appears on Scorpion (1969 album) and Meat Loaf's debut album Stoney & Meatloaf (1971). For this recording, he cowrote four songs.[3][4] In that same year, he played tenor guitar on 'Evolution' by Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band[5] He was a guitarist and singer of the Rare Earth from 1971 until 2004 (with a break around 1977).[6]