Ray Monette (born May 7, 1946)[citation needed] is an American musician, singer and songwriter.
Career
editHe 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] Monette 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.
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. 25 August 2009. 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". Badcatrecords.com. Retrieved 12 July 2011.
- ^ Stoney and Meatloaf The Almost Complete Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman Lyric Archive], Mljs.evilnickname.org (Retrieved 2 July 2011)
- ^ "Rare Vinyls - the Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore gems!". Djharvey.de. 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". Genesis-news.com. Retrieved 2016-10-17.