Ray Monette

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. His name appears on Scorpion 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] and played a guitar solo on Funkadelic's "I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing". He was a guitarist and singer of the Rare Earth from 1971 until 2004 (with a break around 1977).[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Sport Records 104-A (1967 Detroit MI) label & song - side A: 'Love Burns Like A Fire Inside' (A. Williams, R. Monette, M. Campbell), The Abstract Reality". YouTube. Retrieved 12 July 2011. (Note: side B: ib. instrumental version)
  2. ↑ "The Soul Discography (Volume 1 A-F)" (pdf). Eyeball Productions, West Vancouver, BC Canada. p. 2. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "Scorpion (album, band)". BadCat Records, Reston, VA, U.S.A. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
  4. ↑ Stoney and Meatloaf The Almost Complete Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman Lyric Archive (Retrieved 2 July 2011)
  5. ↑ D.J.Harvey. "Rare Vinyls - the Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore gems!". Retrieved 12 July 2011. (Sussex SXBS 7004 - 1971)
  6. ↑ Gary S. Hartman (2008). "Rare Earth". The Classic Rock Connection. Retrieved 12 July 2011.