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This is the personal myspace page of Robert Dodson
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topbop home page - http://www.topbop.com
http://robertdodson.myplaxo.com/
http://www.myspace.com/topboptheomegaproject
http://www.myspace.com/sexybluesband
http://www.myspace.com/sinetheband
http://www.myspace.com/dodsonrobert
http://www.myspace.com/topbopmusic
http://www.myspace.com/topboprecords
http://groups.myspace.com/seriousbass
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The space program is underfunded.
We have no choice but to adopt cleaner, locally sourced energy now!!!
Sometimes a process takes time to unfold...The flame within...the flame of peAce...must burn ever brighter in our hearts. Those that die brought down by the killing machines, we mourn their loss. Is it necessary that they die this way now?
Poised at the brink of daybreak a ray of light leaps over the horizon to my eyes. It is you. My soul rushes to meet yours and we harmonize in the music of that moment and that moment alone...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick
About me? I like to walk in the forest and see the leaves cast their shadows across my path. I enjoy riding my mountain bike and working out at the gym. Reading is a lifelong pastime. I don't watch much TV outside of news and C-SPAN. I really enjoy a good movie, though those seem to be hit-or-miss. Performing music is a real passion for me and I have done so since I was quite young. Technology vision seems inborn, and has since my earliest recollections alone in my crib. I feel deeply that we all need to work to use our own minds to comprehend the workings of our universe, and beware the easy solution or the quick fix. I feel it is better to take the broadest possible view of things. Visualization is innate, leveraged in technical as well as musical pursuits. Some might say I have an easy facility with multi-dimensional thinking... Here's a simple concept that underpins our world. In as real a sense as we have Only One Day, we have Only One Planet. Let's correspond. topbop*at*topbop*dot*com
I am a gentleman (...at least that is my intent, 100%) and warm-hearted friend...Sometimes a fool but always caring. Living and learning and loving it. http://topbop.blogspot.com/ ... What day is this and do I really care?
...things that make you wanna go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Life's journey is one we walk one step, one day, at a time. Our society has to come to its senses, and now. Please do what YOU can. The institutions we have built are a manifestation of the misplaced priorities that pervade society. We would rather rush ahead to cut the other guy off and seize his position, be it on the road to Peoria or the road of life. We need to know we are all in this together, and if one of us loses, we all lose.
Please try to help
your
fellow man.
“A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness…. a kind of prison…Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty….We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive" ~ Albert Einstein

Here are some topbop! projects, past and present...

topbop! has toured on guitar with soul legend Otis Clay. He has performed on bass with the Metropolis Youth Symphony, Aswah Greggori & The Enforcers, Blue Rage and others...


topbop! plays bass and guitar with
Sine... the Band


Buy "Sine Language" CD
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..also bass and guitar in a band known as
the Omega project

topbop! has also performed and recorded with


Sexy Blues Band

topbop! is available for recording and live performance. Vist topbop.com to contact and engage.
peAce...
topbop!
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Do not undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.Do not set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.Do not take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life would be meaningless.Do not let your years slip through your fingers by living in the past, nor the future. By living life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.Do not give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.Do not be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.Do not shut love out of your life by saying it is impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give love; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly.Do not dismiss your dreams. To be without dreams is to be without hope; to be without hope is to be without purpose.Do not run through life so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going.Life is not a race, but a journey, to be savored each step of the way.Anon
"Humankind has not woven the web of life.  We are but one thread within it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  All things are bound together.  All things connect."  Chief Seattle, 1854

My Interests



Indigenous science begins with an apprehension of the Whole, only very carefully and .. inspection reaching tentative conclusions about any Specificity. Indigenous science is based on a profound immersion in and awareness of the whole circumstance. Rather than mistrusting personal experience, Indigenous science has learned to thrive on it. . . . I don't want to give you the impression that this transmittal is based on automatic lineal descent. It's not. In this tradition, a man learns these things from a woman, if possible, and a woman learns them from a man. That way you keep things in balance. It gives you an understanding of the other half of life and prevents some of the competition that can often come in when you learn from someone who is also male, also female. . . . One of the attitudes taught in my tradition is the Rule of Six. The Rule of Six says that for each apparent phenomenon, devise at least six plausible explanations, every one of which can indeed explain the phenomenon. There are probably sixty, but if you devise six, this will sensitize you to how many there may yet be and prevent you from locking in on the first thing that sounds right as The Truth. . . . From an Indian perspective, the "priesthood" nature of Western science is anathema. My own tradition disbelieves in "experts." "That which enables, disables also" means that a physicist will fail in understanding in many other areas, precisely because of the amount of time she/he spends on physics and therefore not on other things. Such people are not considered "experts," but "those extensively informed on part of the whole". They are listened to not on a priesthood basis, but on the basis of their having information others may not yet have--just as vice versa. The search for greater wholeness--which has no room for "expertise"--is unending! Any highly trained person will of course have a particular view--and therefore has a special responsibility to listen before speaking in any discussion of what the people may choose to do. Any person in a group who gets out of touch with his, with her community, is separated therefrom. Although I don't think there is the same negative connotation as there is in English, a shaman out of touch with her, with his community takes on aspects of the wizard--an isolated person who can inadvertently or on purpose do things that are harmful to the community. The process of Western "expertise" would be seen as a process of encouraging people to be isolated from the rest of their community in some way. . . . The basis of learning, the basis of the pedagogy, is to cease preventing people from learning things for themselves. This way of thinking, what goes on in here, can really be taught from the inside out. When it's taught from the outside in, someone else comes between you and yourself, and that's not considered a wise idea. That's the tradition. In one of your papers on Perennial Wisdom it says that the Native tradition is nature-focused. I would like to modify that a little. I would like to say that Indian traditions are nature-inclusive. You do not see man and nature as separate from each other, but you see yourself in the context of an interrelated whole instead. . . . The idea is that everybody learns, but you need to figure out how a child learns in order to design a learning circumstance in which each individual can teach themselves. The idea is always to teach yourself. In fact there is no word "teach," or there didn't used to be, in the fundamental language.

A Native American Worldview / Hawk and Eagle, Both are Singing

This planet and others... I am in a constant learning mode...the more I learn the more I want to learn... Life is full of so much and each breath we take has so much significance. Living life one moment at a time while keeping a proper perspective on the miniscule scale of each of our lives in relation to all of time... Anything that brings me closer to life in the moment, good books, fast cars, good looks, you get the drift..I am very concerned about the impact man has had and is having on our planet. We are so short-sighted and our societies are based on strategies that are not self-sustaining, in the long run. Please do your part to think before you act!!! ...and don't run with scissors...

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Life is music and music is life, if you know what I mean...live it up and love it!



Jazz Bassists of the World!!!

"...all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, ...we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves..."

--- Bill Hicks

"Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source -- you."

--Rhonda Byrne, "The Secret"

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thanks!!!
peAce...

Kaki King is truly awesome, no?

Music:

What a joy and delight to share the air with the sound of your music.Una qué alegría y placer para compartir el aire con el sonido de tu música.Una ché gioia e piacere per ripartire l'aria con il suono della vostra musica.wat 'n vreugde en genot om te deel die lug met die klank van jou musiek.Une quels joie et plaisir pour partager l'air avec le bruit de votre musique.Eine was für Freude und eine Freude, zum der Luft mit dem Ton deiner Musik zu teilen.Que alegria e prazer para compartilhar do ar com o som de sua música.Thanks!!!
peAce...

..Everything from Bach to Beatles to you name it... EVERYTHING! and to name a few: 50 cent, A Flock of Seagulls, Aaron Copland, Aimee Mann, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Art Blakey, Art Pepper, Art Tatum, Arturo Sandoval, Avishai Cohen, B.B. King, Beethoven, Ben Harper, Benny Carter, Benny Green, Big Brother And The Holding Company, Bill "Buddha" Dickens, Bill Evans, Billy Joel, Bjork, Black Eyed Peas, Black Flag, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bola Sete, Brian Setzer, Buddy Guy, Buddy Holly, Cab Calloway, Cannonball Adderley, Carlos Santana, Cat Stevens, Catfight, Charles Mingus, Charlie Hayden, Charlie Parker, Chicago, Chick Corea, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, Doc Guitar Watson, Doctor John, Dolly Parton, Donny Hathaway, Duke Ellington, Dwight Yoakam, Earl Klugh, Eddie Harris, Eddie Palmeri, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Eric Dolphy, Eric Johnson, Etta James, Fiona Apple, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Sinatra, Freddie Hubbard, Gabor Zabo, Giovanna Tango, Gorillas, Green Day, Guns N Roses, Henry Mancini, Herbie Hancock, Herman's Hermits, India Arie, Jaco Pastorius, James Jamerson, Jane Monheit, Janis Joplin, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Lovano, Joe Satriani, John Coltrane, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, JuGGernaut Trio, Keith Jarrett, Kings X, Kurt Elling, Led Zeppelin, Les Claypool, Leslie West, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Madonna, Marcus Miller, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Megadeth, Metallica, Michael Brecker, Miles Davis, Mozart, Nat King Cole, Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Nirvana, Norah Jones, Ornette Coleman, Oscar Peterson, Otis Redding, PJ Harvey, Paquito D'Rivera, Pat Metheny, Paul Chambers, Pink Floyd, Prince, Queen, Rammstein, Ray Charles, Ray LaMontagne, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Reverend Horton Heat, Richie Hart, Ricky Lee Jones, Robert Johnson, Sam Cooke, Sarah Vaughan, Sex Pistols, Sigur Ros, Sine The Band, Smashing Pumpkins, Son House, Sonny Stitt, Stanley Clarke, Stevie Vai, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Sun Ra, The Clash, The Cure, The Dixie Chicks, The Doors, The Jefferson Airplane, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Mamas And The Papas, The Manhattan Transfer, The Omega Project, The Stray Cats, The Supremes, The Talking Heads, The Who, Thelonious Monk, Tommy Emmanuel, Tony Bennett, Tori Amos, Tuck Andress, U2, Uriah Heep, Victor Wooten, Wayne Shorter, Weather Report, Wes Montgomery, Wynton Marsalis, Zappa and so on and so forth! ...see, I mean everything!!!

Movies:

2001 A Space Odyssey, The Constant Gardner, The Fifth Element, La Femme Nikita, Hard to Kill, V for Vendetta, The Matrix ...

Television:

why...? oh okay I use the pay-per-view sometimes, mostly C-SPAN and the ..ary Channel...well..used to like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Prisoner...today 24 is offdahook!

Books:

The Secret Science Behind Miracles, The Glass Bead Game, 1984, Animal House, Imperial Hubris, Plan of Attack, Rainbows End, Endgame, Oahspe, Guns Germs and Steel...you get the idea...

Heroes:



"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

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Find out how much I think you're WORTH!peAce...topbop!...
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...voting machines fabricate election results...

Arkansas Election Officials Baffled by Machines That Flipped Race"Election officials in Faulkner County, Arkansas, are trying to determine how two voting machines allocated votes cast in one race to a...
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Angelo Lizzio & Friends!

peAce...topbop!...
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our brave troops share analysis of iraq war...

Soldier's Motivation In Iraq ..peAce... now!topbop!...
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cold blooded killers... watch this NOW!!!!

Keith Olbermann Special Comment May 14 2008 Part 1 Part 2peAce...would have been, always is a better choice!topbop!...
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earth will survive, not looking as good for humankind...

As we drove over the mountains that lie between northern Nevada and northern California we saw several wildfires burning along the roadside. Fire trucks were scurrying towards several of them, along ...
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Know your history...

Why should you remember this...? There is a compelling historical reason to examine the specific "who and how" of 9/11/2001 +++ To hear one reason why you should care, please click here... Please r...
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earth will survive, not looking as good for humankind...

As we drove over the mountains that lie between northern Nevada and northern California we saw several wildfires burning along the roadside. Fire trucks were scurrying towards several of them, along ...
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topbop! is on the road!

reno, nv last month, now san francisco, ca!!!stay tuned for updates!!peAce...topbop!
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