Michael cactus moser biography of george michael

When veteran vocal star Wynonna describes her musician husband as “quite a force to be reckoned with,” it’s both a boast and a statement of fact. It’s also a description that could be applied to her and her 14-month marriage, which nearly came to a fatal end less than three months after she wed Michael Scott “Cactus” Moser last summer.

Moser and Wynonna, a five-time Grammy Award-winner, were married on her Tennessee farm on June 10, 2011. Eleven weeks later, on Aug. 18, the couple went for a pre-concert ride together on separate motorcycles outside a town in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The town’s name, Deadwood, quickly took on a chilling tone.

Moser was on tour with Wynonna as the drummer and band leader of her group, The Big Noise. As he was riding his motorcycle just a few feet behind his new wife, an oncoming vehicle collided with him and severed his left leg. At first, a horrified Wynonna didn’t know if Moser was dead or alive.

During subsequent emergency surgery in Rapid City, doctors amputated the leg above his left knee and also operated on his left hand.

“When he lost his leg and shattered his hand, the doctors said: ‘We just don’t know if you’ll be able to play the drums again’,” Wynonna recalled. “It took months to get him so he could hold a fork again.”

Moser, her third husband, was fitted with a prosthetic leg and told he’d be in rehab for up to a month. He was out in just 8 days, although he spent the next 8 months in a wheelchair, after which he began using a walker. Against all odds, Moser was back behind the drums with Wynonna on Nov. 26, when she kicked off her Christmas tour. A year later, he is playing more energetically and with greater determination than ever.

“Cactus got off his meds very quickly, which made a huge difference between (having) depression and getting better,” said Wynonna, who performs here Wednesday a

Wynonna Judd and her husband, Michael Scott "Cactus" Moser, have been through a lot in their years of marriage. When they said "I do" on June 10, 2012, they didn't know the devastating event that would take place just a couple of months later -- but they emerged stronger from it.

Judd and Moser (formerly of Highway 101 and now Judd's drummer) met when they toured together in 1989. He recalls "feeling a spark," but Judd wasn't so sure: "He had a mullet," she says with a laugh (though Moser prefers to call it a "beautiful feathered hairdo").

Plus, it was a little complicated. As Judd tells Us Weekly, "He was touring with Mom [Naomi Judd] and myself, and I was smitten then, [but] when you're touring with your mother, it's kind of hard to get a date. So we went our separate ways."

When the tour ended a year later, Moser returned to his home in Los Angeles, while Judd went back to Tennessee. They kept in touch, began dating in 2009 -- after Judd had been married and divorced twice -- and got married during the summer of 2012. Their wedding took place on Judd's farm in Leipers Fork, Tenn., at a lakeside gazebo. She wore a gorgeous Houri Barahimi dress and opted to walk barefoot down the aisle. After the vows, the couple dined on spaghetti during a candlelit reception.

"I felt a joy that hasn't been there before," Judd gushes.

But then, in a terrible twist of fate, on Aug. 18, 2012, Moser was in a motorcycle accident and needed to have one of his legs amputated.

"I went from Wyonnna the singer to Wynonna the wife, the nurse, the cook, the driver," she tells The Boot. "We're talking real down-in-the-trenches, hardcore stuff that you don't really think you're gonna have to go to [in a marriage]."

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Wynonna Judd on Tuesday shared what it’s like when a loved one -- in this case her then-newlywed husband Michael “Cactus” Moser -- has a serious brush with death.

“It made us so strong that I dare anyone to try and come between us. We are almost bulletproof at this point,” the country singer told “Entertainment Tonight” about the August 2012 motorcycle wreck that cost Moser one of his legs.

It was a perfect day for riding Harleys with friends before a gig in Deadwood, S.D., Judd told “ET.”

“Wind in the hair, he’s 10 feet in front of me and it went from that to the sound like a tornado that you never forget,” she said. “I will never forget that smell nor that sound coming from two vehicles colliding, and me going on past him thinking, ‘Is he alive or dead? I have no idea.’”

Moser, a drummer in Judd’s band, had drifted across the center line on his motorcycle and collided with an oncoming car. His left leg was severed at the scene, a Judd rep said in a statement at the time. It was ultimately amputated above the knee.

Judd said when the crash occurred she dropped her bike and ran back to her husband, who she realized was still breathing.

“I got on my belly and looked right in his eyes ‘cause I knew if he closed his eyes that he would bleed out and that was it,” she said. “I was 10 feet behind him when the accident happened and I saw the leg shatter and go all over the road.”

Then it was time to go through the recovery process, which Judd said made her feel helpless at times.

“I became his nurse,” the singer said, “my glasses at the end of my nose, pushing saline up into the gaping wounds and wrapping them. ... The bottom line is it makes [you] or breaks you. You realize that you’re bonded in a life.”

The two had gotten married on her Tennessee farm just two months before the crash.

“When I said I do, I never dreamed I would go through as much as I did as soon as I did.”

Both said the accid

George Michael Moser (1706–83) was the pre-eminent gold chaser in London from the late 1730s to the 1770s, a period when chasing was the dominant style of decoration for London watches, and when British horology was regarded as the best in Europe.
Moser’s known career played out entirely in London.

Michael cactus moser biography of george

Born in Switzerland, he came to England as a young man in 1726 to make his fortune. After working first for a coppersmith and then as a maker of furniture mounts, he later became established as the finest gold-chaser of his generation and a dynamic member of the artistic community.

As well as being an accomplished chaser and an influential painter in enamel, he also helped to transform the teaching of art in London, giving instruction at the St Martin’s Lane Academy and at the Royal Academy. He taught many notable artists, including William Blake.

He was one of the four future academicians who petitioned George III to give his patronage to an academy and he became it