Ivan Julian continues to write and produce music at his analog tape/digital recording studio, NY HED where he has produced the last 2 Fleshtones LP’s, mastered Five Dollar Priest among others. His production skills have been praised being compared to George Clinton and Joe Boyd. To summarize, the one thing he does is make music. |
When he was 13, he was a singer in a Led Zeppelin cover band, which led him to pick up the guitar at 14. Prior to this, he also studied the bassoon and sax. He spent his high school years as a part-time student in a college program studying music theory. And then at the age of 17, the wanderlust spirit took over and Julian found himself in London as a member of The Foundations with notable hits as “Build Me Up Buttercup” and “Baby Now That I Found You” touring Great Britain, Switzerland and Yugoslavia.
THE VOIDOIDS, BLANK GENERATION
In 1977 Julian returned to the U.S. to New York, where he was a founding member of the seminal Punk/ New Wave group Richard Hell and the Voidoids. Soon after the band recorded an EP that was heralded by the Village Voice as one of the best records of the year. Early traces of Julian’s prowess grace two sides of this historical platter.
Later that year they were signed to Sire/Warner Brothers, and with the band and Richard Gottehrer producing came the Blank Generation LP. This album set a new standard for a whole generation of guitar players. Two of Julian’s songs (co-written with Richard Hell), Liars Beware and Betrayal Takes Two appear on side one. He is also credited with writing the intro to the title song, Blank Generation. The reviewers gave Blank Generation high accolades and singled out the guitar work praising its merit. The album stands the test of time and today is still considered the quintessential record of that period.
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