Above..... Thursday May 12 th, 2016 this guitar arrived very early at the ranch by U.S. Mail. Finally , One of the most rare and desiarable wierd and wild guitars Texas Joe has been wanting since he was 18 years old ! This Peavey Razer built between 1983 to early 1984...(sorry have not zeroed in the exact date with serial number) in Meridian, Mississippi is an excellent well built high quality American Guitar. Razers are very rare and sought after guitars by guitarists who like wild shapes. Texas Joe lucked out on this one. It is in very clean, almost showroom condition. Not bad for a 33 year old guitar ! The guitar was found by a very good buddy of his in Austin Texas at a pawn shop on the East side of the city, for a super great deal we might ad, since these guitars go upwards of 500 to 750 dollars on Ebay,Craigslist and Reverb.com. It is a sleeper of a guitar you either know about it or you dont not much info is available on these guitars. There is a rumour that Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad helped design this guitar for Peavey. This is a great story, hope its true . The guitar sounds amazing it has a huge powerful sound. The neck has a slick Fender feel and is alot of fun to play. The tones are all over the place as the pickups can vary from humbucking to single coil...with the wind of the tone knobs, a very kool feature of early Peavey Guitars, very nice. Texas Joe had only seen one of these guitar before in his life . In 1985 visiting some cousins in Bay City, Texas Joe came across a White Peavey Razer in a Music store there, it was super cool looking and it played great. At the time Joe could not afford one and in the past 33 years has never seen one at a music shop or guitar show always wanting one but never finding one, ever until..his good Austin Guitar Hunting friend found this model back in February 2016 in a pawn shop in Austin. This is a treasure for life. This guitar will appear on the next Valles Flying Machine Concert, but for now VFM is working on its live album. It is a great looking and sounding guitar.
ABOVE ....is a photo taken about 2007 with Texas Joe holding a Yamaha SBG 500 Model Guitar....sadly Texas Joe had to sell this guitar in about 2011 and regrets it big time ! Texas Joe found this guitar in a Harlingen, Texas pawn shop all dirty and crusty missing one tone knob and some strings. The guitar got cleaned up polished...and it was a very toneful instrument...beautiful singing sustain....just outta sight ! hard times hit and thinking he would not miss this beautiful tone machine sold it to pay some bills. He has never found another guitar to replace this one. This guitar hurt after a while and Texas Joe misses it alot. Hopefully somewhere down the road he will find another one like it..Yamaha has an excellent quality build and the guitars for some reason are very musical. Yamaha Magic we guess. 
Above ....are some pictures of guitars that are also Hits and Misses with Texas Joe. The Yamaha 12 string was bought for 80 bux by Eloy Valles in a Brownsville, Texas pawn shop in summer of 2011 and it has helped Texas Joe write alot of songs for the Valles Flying Machine. It has brought out a whole new beautiful world of acoustic/folk style music for the band and this 12 string Yamaha helped Texas Joe take th band to a whole new level...the guitar was found all dirty and missing strings..but was cleaned up...and when the 1 st set of fresh strings Joe put on it, he could not believe how beautiful the guitar sounded ! it is a total joy to play and is super inspiring to play. alot of if not the whole of the acoustic sessions were done with this guitar. This Yamaha is from the late 1980's or early 1990's it is very well built and has a beautiful tone when strummed...a total keeper guitar.
The next picture is from summer of 2013 taken in Austin, Texas when Joe was living there...Texas Joe is holding a early 2003 Metalflake Blue Dan Electro 12 string electric guitar. This guitar has also been very influential in the VFM song book as it appears on many You Tube videos the band has made. This guitar was found on Craigslist in San Marcos, Texas. The Dano 12 STRING was bought from a college student selling it for a buddy of his...who needed cash for school. Texas Joe drove all the way down in heavy traffic from Austin to san marcos to get the guitar and has never regretted the purchase since. The guitars have some trouble with tuning. It has to be very well adjusted but the sound is so magical from the Dano Lipstick Tube pickups..it is super inspiring to play. a Total Keeper of a guitar.
The next guitar is a PRS ...EG import model that Texas Joe purchsed back in winter of 2010.right before Christmas....in a Pawn Shop in Harlingen, Texas it was a very clean guitar and had a great tone and sound..but Texas Joe did not bond with the guitar and sold it to his buddy Jon Douglas not much later....so for some reason or another the guitar was a Miss. nothing wrong with the guitar but the magic was not there.