Career
He started his career as a songwriter and musician in Detroit. In 1967 with an band called "The Abstract Reality", a 45 rpm single Love Burns Like A Fire Inside was released. With Mike Campbell, Bob "Babbitt" Kreinar and Andrew Smith he formed Scorpion.
His name appears on Scorpion and Meat Loaf"s debut album Stoney & Meatloaf (1971).
Foreign this recording, he cowrote four songs. In 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 a guitarist and singer of the Rare Earth from 1971 until 2004 (with a break around 1977).