In 1970, along with some friends, fourteen-year-old Ivandić founded a music section within the Boško Buha youth centre simply because it was willing to provide free instruments.

However, the release date kept getting pushed back due to financing issues as they had problems convincing the Jugoton record label to cover their expenses.

Simultaneously, during Bregović's temporary army leaves, the duo—backed up by Bijelo Dugme singer Željko Bebek—initiated multiple internal discussions as they wanted several business matters within the band to be handled differently going forward, specifically writing credits and subsequent revenue sharing.

Dissatisfied with Bregović's flat rejection of their demands, Ivandić and Ristovski abandoned Bijelo Dugme altogether in late July 1978 in order to fully commit to their Laza i Ipe project.

Then on September 10, 1978, the day of the album release, while entering his apartment building in Sarajevo, coming back from a walk with his girlfriend[citation needed], twenty-two-year-old Ivandić was arrested by a plainclothes policeman and taken in for questioning.

Since the authorities of the Yugoslav constituent unit of SR Serbia mostly didn't enforce Ivandić's country-wide ban, he began frequently performing there as a session drummer in order to help his suddenly lacklustre finances due to losing all his sources of income.

He participated in the recording sessions of the twenty-two-year-old Slađana Milošević's 1979 debut album Gorim od želje da ubijem noć in PGP-RTB's studios in Belgrade and furthermore appears in the title track video.

Showing Ivandić in several frames of the video at this time was considered controversial in Yugoslavia and reportedly required young Milošević to personally intervene with television executives.

Eventually, Ivandić was sentenced by the Sarajevo District Court three-judge council presided over by judge Husein Hubijer to 3+1⁄2 years in prison for "possession of hashish and enabling others to use narcotics".

After being released from prison, Ivandić reportedly immediately travelled to SR Slovenia, spending several weeks with a friend without contacting any of his old professional collaborators.

By late December 1982, he got tracked down by Bijelo Dugme's manager Raka Marić [sr] and bandleader Bregović who extended an offer of rejoining the band.

Sometime after his late 1982 prison release, Ivandić began a romantic involvement with Amila Sulejmanović [sr] (later Welland), eight years his junior, whom he would also start collaborating with musically.

In 2018, Sulejmanović released her autobiography Ključ bubnja tama, significant portions of which centre around her musical career in Yugoslavia and relationship with Ivandić.