Ray Monette

He started his career as a session musician with Motown. He was also a songwriter and, in 1967 Detroit started a band called The Abstract Reality, who released a 45 rpm single "Love Burns Like A Fire Inside".[1][2] He formed Scorpion with Mike Campbell, Bob 'Babbitt' Kreinar and Andrew Smith. His name appears on Scorpion and Meat Loaf's debut album Stoney & Meatloaf (1971). For that recording, Monette co-wrote four songs.[3][4] 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 guitarist and singer for Rare Earth from 1971 until 2004 (with a break around 1977).[6] Ray played guitar on one of Rare Earth's most memorable singles, "I Just Want To Celebrate" and was the guitarist on the gold-selling 1971 live album, "Rare Earth In Concert" (which had a unique album cover design, like a backpack, with a flap opening). In 2010, Monette played on the Phil Collins album Going Back.[7]

Ray Monette is an American musician born in 1946.

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. Archived from the original (pdf) on 19 November 2011. 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. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
  7. Gerhardts, Christian. "Genesis News Com [it]: Phil Collins - Making Of Going Back". www.genesis-news.com. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
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