. . . . . . . . . "1121990268"^^ . . . . . . . . . . "Ray Monette is an American musician born on May 7, 1946. 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\". 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. That same year, he played tenor guitar on \"Evolution\" by Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band, 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).Ray played guitar on one of Rare E"@en . . . . . . . . . "Ray Monette"@en . "3792"^^ . . "32384479"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Ray Monette is an American musician born on May 7, 1946. 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\". 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. That same year, he played tenor guitar on \"Evolution\" by Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band, 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).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."@en . . . . . . . . . . .