Three-dimensional transforming, musical, linguistic objects.

Helvet Jones.

Greetings from Cyberdelic Space. This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

And I've got a long program for you today, as this is actually a significant day here in the salon.

This is the end of our 19th year of podcasting. But never fear, next Monday will feature the first podcast of our 20th year

so for today's podcast I thought it would be nice to let you know what I've always thought the salon is actually about

and podcasting is only a part of it now if you are like one of our fellow saloners who listens to these podcasts on soundcloud

I should warn you that

this intro is going to be longer than five minutes. And the reason I mention that is because

here is a recent message I received via SoundCloud, and I quote, we don't need to hear your rambling for five

minutes at the beginning of every podcast.

End quote.

Well, I take no offense, because as P.T. Barnumann said, it doesn't matter what people say about you as long as they spell your name right.

So, here is my State of the Salon talk.

Back in 2001, I was testing some new communication software that Bruce Damer and his team were developing.

This was long before Zoom. It was audio only and super secure.

So, I thought, if it's so secure, well, why not test it with something that couldn't be discussed on the phone, if you know what I mean?

And that is how the salon began. It was me, Wild Bill, Dr. Tom, and Nick Sand.

Dr. Tom and Nick Sand, now, they spoke in a language that Bill and I didn't know. It was the language of deep chemistry.

And then they went on to concoct some molecules that while Bill and I tested for them.

It was our own little salon, and in July of 2001, I purchased the URL, psychedelic salon.com.

And that's how it began, as an actual salon.

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