Rickster, The Human Being

I am Free because the truth made me that way.

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RICKSTER: THE HUMAN BEING

76 Years Old. 10 Kids. 19 Grandkids. Still Standing.

They say you have to suffer to sing the blues. If that is true, I have paid my dues in full, plus 50% interest, including taxes. My music is real and based on my life experiences. I have played in 3 bands as a harmonica player, and 2 other bands as guitar player, singer, and harmonica player. I started as a bass player in 1969. I am a true audiophile. I have been to most professionally top professional bands since I was 13, but I see very few live big time concerts due to the high cost of tickets. I have seen all the greats from Dylan, Jimi, Janice, <uddy, the Wolf, and even Big Mama Thornton. I saw SRV 3 times. Jeff Beck 3 times, John Mayall, and made friends with John Lee Hooker and James Cotton when they passed through Vancouver B.C.

I saw them all and also have a music collection of 40tb of lossless music for all genres that I listened to all the time.

I am a father to ten children and a grandfather to nineteen. My music company, “10 Kids 19 Grandkids Music,” is named for them because they are the reason I keep going. I run my publishing under “Be a Role Model”—a name I chose because, despite everything, that is what I strive to be. I’ve always believed in total honesty; I have never kept secrets from my family, no matter how hard the truth was.

Not permitted back into Canada to be with my family

Due to my Deportation from Canada, I have been refused reentry when I left Canada to see my parents who were dying of Cancer, for one last time. That was 20 years ago.

That is another prison sentence for me. The crime was have a few pounds of marijuana in my suitcase back in 1972. I have spent most of my 20 years as an unpaid caregiver for my mom dad, and I was paid to care give my dying brother but only for 1 1/2 years.

I was still productive about my personal life

I graduated from a community college with a diploma in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics in 2023, hoping I would find a higher-paying job. Then, I returned to college for a degree in Entrepreneurship. I hope this will help me with my music business.

The Losses I have had my heart broken by this business and my Painting Business more than once. I built a full 8-track studio—amps, effects, tools, everything I needed to create. I lost it all. Then I built it again. And I lost it all again. I have had three favorite guitars—extensions of my own hands—stolen from me. But you can steal the instrument, but you can’t steal the music.

The Scars My life hasn’t just been hard on my gear; it’s been hard on me. I carry the physical scars of trusting the wrong people—like the “dentist” who wasn’t a dentist at all, leaving me to lose my teeth while he went to jail for fraud.

I have seen the bottom of the barrel. I spent time in the notorious Okalla Prison in Canada, locked in a holding tank under a barn meant for livestock. I spent four months in a holding block, sick and waiting for deportation. It was a dark, cold time.

The Music Remains: Why put all this on a website? Because this is where the songs come from. When you hear me sing about pain, loss, or hard times, I am not making it up. I am remembering.

I am Rickster. I am a survivor. And I am still here. My name is Anna Möller, and these are some of my photo projects.