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from http://soulfuldetroit.com/archives/1/794.html?1025211637BOBBABBITT on Wednesday, June 26, 2002 - 06:05 am:At a session at golden world for ed wingate i noticed two faces watching me from inside the control room....After the session they approached me and introduced themselves....Mike campbell and ray monnette.... Both of them sang and wrote their own songs and at that time i think they were signed with jack ashford as artist, ray was also a guitar player and mike was the main singer, i took a liking to them and the three of us got together to just play some music, mike also played congo’s and harmonica, we started to write some songs that were recorded by some of the local artist, by then the friendship was growing, at some point they were not signed with jack anymore and we then decided to do a self contained group thing, with not only the concept of the r&b feel, which ray and mike both had a handle on, ( the first session that i did with ray was “cool jerk”) but also tunes with a hard edge funk soul rock, a beatle’s flavor, pop sounding, sly and the family stone, jimi hendrix, and cream mixed together, we then asked andrew smith to play with us and what he contributed took it yet to another level........................... By the way we started this before the coming of sly and hendrix........ We made demos, signed a deal with capitol, then after we recorded the album at tera shirma studio under the name “scorpion” capitol refused it and we hit the streets and pounded the doors in detroit, l a, and new york with no luck with the exception of arman baladian (westbound records) but we turned him down thinking his label could not do the job.........Then someone from tower records (pink floyds label at that time) heard the album and we made a deal with them.........But.......Capitol, who refused it originally, owned tower records......... And even though there was heavy promotion started before the release of the album, capitol fired everyone that was behind us at the label and defunct the tower record label............Another album i wish i could locate..............After that the group signed with motown and the first thing that happened was that the rare earth group offered ray the guitar spot, we then recorded some things with paul warren playing guitar, but anything we had recorded for the scorpion group never was finished or released, shortly after that the detroit motown days were history.. Mike made the move to motown la where he got into acting....As an actor he appeared in quite a few movies and commercials but decided it was not for him, he now has 4 kids and lives wyoming or montana, i think he is selling cars? And ray lives in detroit and is still with the rare earth group..