Ray Monette
Ray Monette is an American musician born May 7, 1946.
Career
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ "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)
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Scorpion (album, band)". BadCat Records, Reston, VA, U.S.A. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
- ^ Stoney and Meatloaf The Almost Complete Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman Lyric Archive (Retrieved 2 July 2011)
- ^ D.J.Harvey. "Rare Vinyls - the Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore gems!". Retrieved 12 July 2011. (Sussex SXBS 7004 - 1971)
- ^ Gary S. Hartman (2008). "Rare Earth". The Classic Rock Connection. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
- ^ Gerhardts, Christian. "Genesis News Com [it]: Phil Collins - Making Of Going Back". www.genesis-news.com. Retrieved 2016-10-17.