PEL Presents NEM#192: Guitarist Ivan Julian Serves the Song
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Ivan was a founding member of Richard Hell and the Voidoids in 1977, fronted The Outsets in the '80s, and has put out two solo albums while playing with Matthew Sweet, Shriekback, and other projects.
We discuss "I am Not a Drone (Alone)" (and listen to "Voodoo Christmas") from Swing Your Lanterns (2023), the title track from Naked Flame (2011), and "Liars Beware," by Richard Hell and the Voidoids from Blank Generation (1977). Other clips: "Everything or Nothing" by Outsets from Punk Voodoo Collection (1984) and "Someone to Pull the Trigger" by Matthew Sweet from Altered Beast (1993). For more, see ivanjulian.com.
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| 0:00.0 | The order seemed to make it the examiner of music, podcast about songs and songwriters, |
| 0:15.7 | my name is Mark Linsmire. |
| 0:17.3 | My guess for episode 192 is Ivan Julian. |
| 0:20.4 | Ivan is a sought after guitarist, he actually started as a teen, touring with the foundations |
| 0:25.6 | of Build Me Up a Buttercup fame, who really made his mark as a member of Richard Hell |
| 0:30.2 | and the Voyroids in the late 70s, and he let his own band the outsets through the first |
| 0:34.7 | half of the 80s, and has since then been a session guy, who's in Matthew's sweet span |
| 0:40.2 | for a while, he's played with Treekback the Clash, his own band Loveles, The Funtler |
| 0:45.6 | Royes with Alejandro Escovedo, he's produced bands like The Flesh Tones, and he's put out |
| 0:50.7 | two solo albums you're right now listening to, Godiva, a bonus track from The Naked |
| 0:55.1 | Flame 2011, we're going to be discussing, I am not a drone alone from the new one Swing |
| 1:00.8 | Your Lanterns, and looking back to the title track from that Naked Flame album, and all |
| 1:05.4 | the way back to a song he wrote for Richard Hell in the Voyroids, Liars Beware from Blank |
| 1:10.2 | Generation 1977, well conclude by listening to Voodoo Christmas, another song from the |
| 1:14.7 | new album. |
| 1:15.7 | For more information please see IvanJulian.com, for more about this podcast, the Nakedly |
| 1:20.2 | ExaminedMusic.com, if you want to support the effort, get ad free episodes, and my |
| 1:24.8 | episode notes, go to patreon.com slash nakedly examin music. |
| 1:31.4 | So I will play it a little bit of Godiva from Naked Flame 2011, just because that was |
| 1:36.2 | what was playing at the beginning of the documentary about you, you don't know IvanJulian, as |
| 1:41.0 | it's just a way to show, wow, those are some cool feedback, instrumental riffs that |
| 1:46.4 | you do. |
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