Ray Monette

Ray Monette is an American musician.

He started his career as a songwriter and musician in Detroit. In 1967 with an 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.