“He gets on the (tour) bus and says: ‘I’m sore.’ He’s fighting hard and will be a victor, not a victim. “There are no tricks, no buttons he has just figured out a way to overcome,” Wynonna said of her husband. Moser, however, has opted to continue drumming the old-fashioned way. Instead, he devised a high-tech set up that allows him to use his left foot to electronically trigger the snare drum parts he previously played with his left hand. After attempts to surgically replace it failed, he opted against a prosthetic replacement. Moser is not the first drummer to resume his career after losing a limb.ĭef Leppard’s Rick Allen severed his left arm in a 1984 car crash in his native England. He still uses his left leg, but it is prosthetic and it’s not as strong. I can tell you now Cactus is playing twice as hard with his hands to over-compensate for the loss of his legs, and you’d never know (he had the accident). He gets a bigger standing ovation than I do, which I’m getting used to. It’s a remarkable moment in our show when he lets go (on the drums). “I call him ‘Animal,’ because he attacks the drums. (Ticket information appears at the conclusion of this interview.) “Cactus got off his meds very quickly, which made a huge difference between (having) depression and getting better,” said Wynonna, who performs here Wednesday at the Belly Up with Moser and The Big Noise.
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