Retired publicist Nadine Condon, who worked with legendary Grace Slick and Jefferson Starship, reflects on the industry and her life in “Confessions: Stories to Rock Your Soul.”
In her new memoir, “Confessions: Stories to Rock Your Soul,” retired publicist Nadine Condon looks back on her 30 years in the trenches of the music industry, working with the legendary Grace Slick and the high-powered Jefferson Starship, then going on to mentor a new generation of San Francisco musicians and bands, earning the affectionate title as the Bay Area’s “Godmother of Rock.”
“I lived the rock life because we were on top of the food chain then — first-class hotels, limos, touring Europe and Japan,” she says. “It was the dream. I still feel incredibly fortunate to have worked with such talented, wonderful people. It was a blast and I’m nothing but grateful. Those were great years.”“Confessions” is an apt title. In readable conversational-style, Condon writes frankly about coming to terms emotionally with the trauma of being raped at gunpoint as a college student.
On the road, she became “one of the boys” with the men in the group but never developed that kind of intimacy with Slick, who had long since achieved iconic status as a ‘60s rock goddess with the breakthrough psychedelic-era band the Jefferson Airplane, the precursor to the Starship. At that point in her career, Slick was in her late 40s, mostly sober, and preparing to leave music for a second chapter as a visual artist.
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