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Oshkosh’s Horace Greene is Live from the Madcity on Max Ink Radio

Max Ink Radio · Sat Oct 4, 2025

Horace Green is an indie rock band hailing from Wisconsin powered by longtime friends Tony and Sam accompanied by a rotating lineup of talented musicians, the band infuses their music with rock and roll spirit, blending sulfur grooves and danceable rhythms with a modern indie edge and high above state street in the W MDX studios, it's time for live from the mad city with horse green Tony Sam Austin Todd, welcome to maxing radio last week we came to see horse green at the

Memorial Union Terrace it got a little chilly but you guys kept it warm on stage did we good I'm glad it was really nice it was a great night it was so warm that you guys were like laying down taking a nap during one song

Oh we were recharging recharging during the song oh that was so fun none of you in the band our named Horace Green tell us about starting this band and naming it Horace Green

well this band started with me and Sam about 10 years ago I think which is kind of scary to say it is crazy Horace Green the name is like you know there's nothing specific with it we wanted an old man we wanted an old man's name we were really into blues music when when we started the band so a lot of blues bands are just like the guy's name yeah so we were thinking well we'll get a band you know you get like a dog

you name the dog you get a you get a band I guess you just name the band we went back and forth for a while we did yeah

Bertis Brown was a contender I liked that one well I didn't like Sam didn't like that yeah that's how Pink Floyd got their name there you know

like they just combined the names of two popular blues singers and got Pink Floyd out of it so oh really yeah you're on your way to becoming legends guys

okay good yeah you know and it's like Jethrel tall too right so we keep referring to Horace Green as him he like right yeah

that happens I do it all the time I I can't help it yeah so you know what's the Tony and Sam story I mean you guys are long time friends and started this band how long do you know each other

we but now we probably know each other like 15 years 20 to yeah 15 to 20 years wow we met in early high school yeah thank you like a mutual friend Sam didn't play

bass when I met him no I mean really bass oh that's how it always happens right it was a couple projects before Horace Green and I played guitar and I

think it was you and your cousin made a band called the Devon port yep me my cousin Chris and I played guitar and they wanted me to play but they asked me to play bass

so yeah you didn't you didn't buy your own base for a while I was living on borrowed gear for like for probably like years that's a good one I like that oh that's

interesting well hey let's see what happens let's kick it off with some live music from the man city with Horace Green presented by the Aaron Weber group the first song that you have

for us tonight it's called sunflower silo and it's from your 2018 album diamond engine tell us about this song before you play this is just a it's a song about kind of getting older and I think a lot of people think it's a love song but it's not it's just a song about not

giving up the things you like doing as you get older Horace Green right here live from the man city I'm Maxing Gradio

good God please make me don't I want to see the mystery I hope for God was in everything

and what I used to have in life they have passed I'll bring them back when life ain't so fast but nostalgia's a

vice not just a memory a cry for a better time I never want to say goodbye to love I'll never want to say goodbye I never want to say

goodbye to love I'll never want to say goodbye to love to love

I'll come to me in times of need I get older so are we carrying my knees or is that my heart saying time to feed

I never want to say goodbye to love I'll never want to say goodbye to love I'll never want to say goodbye to love

and I chase my youth like a bullet chase a gun I can't only be here to have someone I don't

it seemed like yesterday we're having dreams we get someday and I'm always gonna be this way I never want to say

good bye to love I never want to say goodbye I never want to say goodbye to love I'll never want to say

goodbye I'll never want to say goodbye to love I'll never want to love too

to love, to love, to love

wow never going to say goodbye to love that is sunflowers silo horse green right here

inner studio live from the man city on maxing radio horse green has been touring relentlessly

for seven years what can you tell us about red roof ins oh man sam sam can tell you about red

roof ins we accidentally trashed a red roof red roof in room yeah red roof in room accidently

yeah they uh we were playing an Indianapolis and the guys like oh yeah oh well you come through

he heard our songs he liked us he's like come through we'll put you up and we're like oh cool

we'll stay right in the city it was like this red roof in like 10 minutes outside the city and

just kind of like a dumpy place and there was only two beds and three human adults and I

had my hammock with me so I'm like I'll just string up my hammock and it'll be fine in the hotel

yeah in the hotel so what did you tie it to I tied it to the door knob and then the front door

the front door and then the dresser and I ripped the entire dresser like for sad thing off of the

oh and I I was like I had I'd been like laying in it for like 20 minutes and then I'd like

sat back down to like getting to bed and it just collapsed yeah and I'm on the floor then you

tied it to the TV oh yeah the TV was like the TV stand was like bolted to the top of the

that we know bolted yeah all night I heard that hammock creaking yeah I was sleeping right in front

of the dresser and I was like this thing to lie off and destroy me I've never heard of a bad

taking hammocks on tour yeah yeah that's pretty good actually yeah except for out of no

about tying into the TV yeah we didn't get charged we tried to put them together we put it yeah we

put it back together best we could well let's get to know the band tonight and Sam let's start with

you uh bass guitars and vocals how do you get started playing music it sounds like you started

on guitar yeah I started on guitar um I was playing guitar hero 2 and I really liked the song

sweet child of mine that like uh huh I don't know that song just stuck with me it really got me

into like I was like oh I got to learn to play guitar this is super cool so I got a guitar

and started taking music lessons and that was the first song I wanted to learn which is not an

easy first song no learn so I like struggled through that for like six months and then you know

it kind of came and went and then yeah just took guitar lessons like for years and

but how did you get into that what was your parents role in your musical upbringing my mom she

always liked like the Beatles and stuff and she'd play music around the house so I always had that

the music collection yeah I see on the old 45s and stuff it was pretty cool so you got into

the lessons on your own you pursued yeah that was like um the the video game kind of inspired me

so video games do do some good wow who knew right here on maxing radio let's get back to

live music from the mad city with horse green presented by the air and webber group the next song

you have for us tonight it is from the diamond engine album and it's called we could be lovers uh

I saw this bumper sticker on highway 41 outside of five like was that you guys whoa what did it say

whoa it said the name of the song that might say we could be lovers that might be a bootleg

yes someone someone's making bootleg horse green right right there which has happened yeah

oh you're already that famous like you should be proud of yourself yeah maybe

all right let's hear it uh we could be lovers right here live from the mad city on maxing

radio

Music

Midnight goes down

Lonely hearts break out

You find a romance new

But you're gonna hit that dance tonight

I have tonight

We could be lost

In the broad lights

We could be lovers

In the broad lights

We could be lovers

Music

But heartache shoots everybody

You better watch good

They only liked you for your body

Think twice and now

And darling when you come

I lose out of my mind

Out of the mind

We could be lost

In the broad lights

We could be lovers

In the broad lights

We could be lovers

Music

We could be lovers

In the broad lights

We could be lovers

Music

But heartache shoots somebody

You better watch good

They only liked you for your body

Think twice and now

Wow, Horus Green

We could be lovers right here

on Max and Cradio live from the Man City

Tony on guitar and lead vocals

How did you get started playing music?

Well, I was playing guitar here too

What?

No, it's not possible

This little song called Sweet Child

Actually, I was joking

But I actually was playing guitar here too

My head and uncle who also played in a band in Wisconsin

They were called the Rock and Bones

Oh, yeah

They were playing a lot in the 90s and stuff

And he moved to Tennessee

But he taught me like the first pentatonic scale

When I got my first electric guitar

But I think it was guitar here

I'm not actually joking

I was joking at first

I remember thinking because I got really good at the game

And I could play on expert mode

And I told my mom when I was in middle school

When you play on expert on this game

It means you're as good as the actual guy

Not true

So I should get a guitar and start this thing

So we did

Well, you can use it as leverage

That's okay

Get that instrument

Because that's not your first guitar

That grouch you're playing tonight, right?

No, I traded someone on Craigslist for this like

Really?

15 years ago

Wow

That's a really nice guitar

Tell people about your grouch

This is a grouch duo jet

It's a custom shop

I don't think they actually make this one

It's got

I took the pickups out

And like you'll drill the bigger cavity

For these other pickups

These are Seymour Duncan's

And they just kind of give it

Yeah, a little more

Classic one star

You know, in bridge

Yeah, yeah

A great looking guitar

If prints were in a jam band from Ockash

It would be called Horse Green

And you just released a new single

From your upcoming album called Cream

Why is this the summer and fall of cream?

The fall?

Yes, we have entered the fall of cream

The fall of cream

It's because of cream

We actually wanted to release it in June

But we were way too optimistic with our timeline

So yeah

And ended up being the summer leading up to cream

Not the summer after cream

So that song was just released like a week or so ago, right?

Cream, actually

Well, cream came a month ago

Okay, a month ago

Yeah

Because we've been playing here on Maxing Radio

A great song

And so let's get back to live music from the man city

With Horse Green presented by the Aaron Weber group

The next song you have for us

It's your latest single called Cream

Um, does this song float to the top?

The cream always rises to the top

Yeah

What's the song about?

Well, what's the

What's the

What's the age range of the listener based

Oh, you know

Well, it's just FCC compliance

I don't think there's an age

It's not about what you think of it

It's about music, actually

It's about music

The cream, I always felt like the cream was like

You know that magical shimmer you get when a song really tickles your brain

Yeah

That's the cream, you know, he says it in the song

That's so cream

Who horse does horse yet horse

Oh, wow

Yeah, the songs are getting a lot of air play on the station

Yeah, there's a lot of cream

They're very creamy station

Yeah, the cream of the crowd

We only played the cream of the crowd and we got cream

All right

It's a true honor

Well, hey, let's hear it live right here

Live from the man city on Maxing Radio

It's Horus Green and this is their latest single cream

You're listening to Maxing Radio

Cream

Must beat it

Cream

Electric heaven grabbing her

Move your body with your soul

How we dream it over songs

As we move across the floor

Oh, till it doesn't prove yet

Pick you up and get you a man

Is that your brain?

Give it into the groove

There's nothing you can do

That's so cream

The currency of ecstasy

Turn and go to secrecy

Sister Sonic filled the ocean

We can ride on this emotion

Turning on and on

The universe is ours

Oh, till it doesn't prove yet

Pick you up and get you a man

Is that your brain?

Give it into the groove

There's nothing you can do

That's so cream

The currency of ecstasy

Turn and go to secrecy

That's so cream

That currency of ecstasy

It's so cream

Turn and go to secrecy

We're feeling good right now

Will we survive it when the phone breaks down

Is that your brain?

Give it into the groove

There's nothing you can do

Is that your brain?

Give it into the groove

There's nothing you can do

Is that your brain?

Give it into the groove

There's nothing you can do

Is that your brain?

Give it into the groove

There's nothing you can do

Must be cream

The currency of ecstasy

Must be cream

Turn and go to secrecy

Must be cream

The currency of ecstasy

Must be cream

Turn and go to secrecy

Must be cream

The currency of ecstasy

Must be cream

Turn and go to secrecy

Must be cream

Turn and go to secrecy

Must be cream

Turn and go to secrecy

Wow, horse green, cream live right here from the Mad City

We're going to take a little break and we'll be right back with horse green live from the Mad City

Right now, back to horse green

Let's give the drummer some

Austin, you're on the drums here tonight

Yes, sir

How did you get started in music?

I got started in music

I started playing drums when I was about 10 years old

Funny enough, there's this game called the guitar hero

I'm kidding

That's rock band

That's when the finally the drummer's got some

I love that

Give the drummer some

That's a James Brown thing

I love that very much

This is Clyde Stubblefield

He's a big influence of mine

So a lot of the funk drumming I studied him for about a year

When I went to college and I was really digging in on some of his album work as Clyde

I think it's Jabble Starks

It was the other drummer

And I did a lot of listening in on them

And they're a huge inspiration

So I know Clyde was here for a very long time until

They moved here in the 70s

Yeah, so it's a lot of awesome person

The party was always in his kitchen

When you ever went over to his house

Everybody ended up partying in the kitchen

And he wrote a song called Parties in the Kitchen

I love that

So what was your parents role in your musical upbringing?

So my dad really didn't want to do the drums

As soon as I said, yeah I want to be a drummer

My brother, he played the clarinet

How was that going to get all right?

Exactly, so then I wanted to do the drums for the very longest time

And then finally my grandma talked to my dad

And talked some sense and said, hey, the kid wants to play drums

Let him play some drums

Go grandma

I know, and that's really the main reason why I'm playing today

Is that she let me get that drum set

Talk to my dad and said, hey, that drum set

You got to get it for him, so...

Was it set up at grandma's house?

It was that

Absolutely set up at grandma's house, so...

Go grandma

Yeah, that was the deal

It's a note of grandma

Oh, that is so fun, very cool

Well, let's get over to Horse Green

Has a new album coming out

And so far you've released two songs

Cream which we just heard and Nighttime Boy

Which we'll hear next

Tell us about your upcoming album

So the upcoming album

We've put a lot of work into this

That we've been doing this

Oh man

So I jumped on with the band in late 2019

And maybe very early 2020

They introduced some of the songs in the album

They said, hey, take a look at this

See what you can do

And this album has been in the works for years and years and years

And finally we got into the studio

We got so much, obviously with COVID and everything

And there's a lot of the latest

It's all a home studio in Oshkosh

Okay

So it was a really really cool opportunity to play

And do it yourself

Type of thing

And it was a lot of hard work

And it was a lot of long nights

I mean, we were recording

Until midnight maybe later sometimes

Wow

I mean, we all have stuff during the day

And so the only time to do it is late at night

And we'd have countless nights

They were pretty late

And put a lot of work into it

But the album was finally finished

I think maybe very early late spring

Or I should say late spring early summer

That makes more sense

But that's when we kind of completed the album work

And we're really excited to

The album is not done

Oh, it's not done

I was just going to say

I mean, are you going to keep releasing it as singles

Or when can we maybe

The album

Find this album

The stints thinking of the diamond engine

The new album is like 20% done

Yeah

Okay

But we're getting there

We're all done with the drums

You think you'll put it out on vinyl in them?

Yes

Definitely

We just got vinyl for night time boy and cream

A little 45

Your music is made for vinyl I think

I didn't know they still made 45

They do, they did it

Wow

They did it just for us

Just one

All right, we'll wrap it up

Well, let's get back to live music

From the Mad City with Horus Green

And presented by the Aaron Weber group

The next song you have for us tonight

It's called

Night Time Boy

And that's about B-O-I

B-O-I

I found that interesting

Tell us about this song before you play

Oh, Night Time Boy

Yeah, well, anybody can be a Night Time Boy

Can girls be Night Time Boy?

Absolutely

I'm glad you asked

Absolutely

Anybody can be a Night Time Boy

A Night Time Boy is just a person who

It feels like they need to get out there

Let's start living a little more life

Maybe at night

If that's where you want to do it

Awesome, let's hear it

Night Time Boy

You're listening to the Horus Green

Live from the Mad City on Maxink Radio

Late Night on alone

But we ain't coming down

Strangest feeling I got now

Got me breaking down

And maybe things just don't feel right

Maybe I got a fortnight

But I got it

How could I keep away?

I want to be a Night Time Boy

I want to stay up till the moonlight

It's me out of my mind

How could I be missing this?

So much sweeties and they're getting there

Everything I'm looking in the morning

But I'm forgetting it

And babe, I could be your Night Boy

I stay bringing in the light next morning

I want to be a Night Time Boy

I want to stay up till the moonlight

It's me out of my mind

And I won't be sleeping on this night

I'll come to the other side

I'll fall in love

I'll last myself

I want to be a Night Time Boy

I want to stay up till the moonlight

It's me out of my mind

I want to be a Night Time Boy

I want to stay up till the moonlight

It's me out of my mind

Night Time Boy

Well, I'm a little older, so guitar Hero 2 isn't out yet

Guitar Hero 1

I saw that and I said, don't they make real guitars?

Yeah, I get one of those real ones

Actually I was playing a lot of video games

That's the real honest truth

I was playing a lot of video games in my mom's

He's got to do something else

You want to maybe learn guitar?

I could get you some lessons and I was like, really?

Wow, this is kind of like when you believed in my two secret dreams in life

One to be rock star, which is working out right now

But the first one, they helped me fulfill earlier on

Because I was like, they got me karate lessons

I'm like, how did you know I wanted to be a full-time ninja

This is amazing

Full-time ninja guitar player

So supportive

Wow

Oh, that is so cool

And what, do you play other instruments or just guitar?

I barely can play guitar, so

This one's enough, I mean, that's one's enough

You used to carry harmonica

I could do a couple of harmonica riffs

Old Susanna, piano man

Oh, no, I can't do that

Just a couple of big blues licks, you know

Have you played in other bands around the area?

I have, yeah

What bands would we men know any?

Well, maybe, I currently play and traveling suitcase

Okay, sure

And there's a one you wouldn't have heard of

Or I write most of the stuff is called North Wind in the Sun

I've played with Walt Hamburger for a lot of years too

Yeah

Can we see any of your bands coming up anywhere?

Yeah

Traveling suitcase is...

We just played a thing over with Free Dirt

A few weeks or a month ago

I don't know anything currently right now

But some stuff in the coming weeks for sure

All right, well, let's get back to Horace Green here

And I have these words rolling with Roland

Roland with Roland?

What does that mean?

Roland with Roland

Roland spent a part of the band for...

Roland's really, he's really taken on a personality

He's taken the spotlight a couple times

Roland is a drum machine that Sam got during COVID

Yeah

Oh, yeah

One of those that you can play the drum beats on the buttons

Yeah, you kind of program it and then it plays, you know, it's one of the old vintage ones

And the cool color scheme and the...

We started doing these little jams that are less than a minute long

And then we post...

We write it, record it, film it

And then we post it all in like three hours

And we started doing that just like once a week

Just to stay in front of people on the internet

And people liked it so we just kept doing it

We actually just filmed the 100th Roland with Roland last week

Oh, wow

So...

Where can we work on top?

Where can we find these on YouTube?

Everywhere

Any YouTube, Instagram, TikTok

Or a screen band

Versatile

I dig it

Roland with Roland

All right, well, we'll have to check those out

In the meantime, let's get back to live music

From the man city with horror screen presented by the Aaron Weber group

The next song you have for us tonight, it is called

Lardon Damas

Lardon

I tried

From your diamond engine album

Is this song about bacon?

Bacon?

Yes

Not this one

Because I looked it up

And it said it was bacon

Okay

I'm going to have to look...

I'm going to have to fact check you on

What was the...

Which language?

Maybe I looked up the word Lardon

Lardon?

Lardon is about bacon, Lardron

You know what I see?

The importance of the typo

Lardon might be bacon

The thief of souls

It looks like...

Yeah, but that's the one I have

There's nothing to do with bacon

The thief of bacon would be a good...

The bacon of souls

I was so ready for Jimmy K to call up

And say, use that bacon

I'll tell us about the song before you play

This was one of the earliest songs I wrote

I wrote this like 10 years ago

And it's about...

I like to play characters sometimes in my mind

About...

And like come up with stories

This is one of those songs

And it's just about like...

It's a very open-ended song

So you could kind of take it how you want to take it

But to me, it was about like...

This being who saves people who are in hard times

And they kind of...

He kind of...

He or she rescues their spirit

And then tries to give it back in a better form

Or something

Wow

Interesting

Well, let's hear it

Lardron Dalmons

And by horse green

Right here, live from Man City on Maxing Radio

But I'm a put on back where they belong

This is my purpose forever I roam

I roam

To my home

You just can't see the light

So I'd admit, treat you right

You know I'm praying to you

We're going to make it through the night

You're the touch with a little brick skin

Build me what's an angle at me

But if you close your eyes

We'll be home again

You just can't see the light

So let me treat you right

And I'm a put on back where they belong

You're going to make it through the night

And I've seen too many people cry

And it's our journey

And the spirit feels me

You just can't see the light

So let me treat you right

And I'm a put on back where they belong

You're going to make it through the night

So let me treat you right

What do you know about this, Tammy?

I don't know much about this

But it's out, it's like 15 minutes north of La Crosse

Right on the Mississippi River

And scenic

Yeah, very scenic

It's right on the, we played the Trimpello Hotel

Also very scenic

Oh yeah, I love that place

Yeah, it's really cool

But it's in town there

And it's in Orchard

And they do a big celebration every fall

Honeycris Putanani

Big tent, couple stages, a lot of musicians

Sounds like a blast

And you guys will be playing

How do we keep up with Horace Green online?

And I know my wife Alice is locked on your Spotify page

Where else can we find you guys?

YouTube, but everywhere

Anywhere

The website, we have a website

Oh, what's your website?

Horace Green.com

And that's green with an e

That is

G-R-E and e

Yes, thank you

Oh, that's really important

Highly important

And it's out on that e

Are you going to get a weirder experience?

There is a band Horace Green from where

Mexico, Argentina, Brazil

Is that possible?

Yeah, and it's

Without the e

They're a metal band

So yeah

They're our brothers from

Oh, that's perfect

And they're probably like

Well, we're a metal band

But we wanted to name our band after like a blues guy

Yeah, probably

Tony Sam Todd Austin

Thank you so much for coming down to Madison to perform tonight

I'm Maxing Gradio

We really appreciate it

Thank you

The last song you have for us tonight

It's called Don't You Stop

Quickly tell us about this song before you go

Oh, man, this was a

This song went through some iterations

But this song is just about

Standing up for things and getting out there

And you know, sometimes

You got to do something uncomfortable

To make a change

Todd thinks it's about fish fries

Fish fries till you break through

Alright, fish fries

A tune about fish fries

Don't you stop

Don't you stop eating those fish fries

This horror screen

Right here

Maxing Gradio

Get out your car

Tonight we go in real fun

The city's hot

But don't you stop

Until you get what you claim out for

But don't let the men shake

You fish fries till you break through

Nobody can touch your love

It's a great dance

But don't break any heart

It's a slow dance

The way this America starts

But don't let the men shake

You fish fries till you break through

Nobody can touch your love

You can take two

The streets with all your fire

They can't break you

But love knows they will try

You will try

You have the power

But you know

That the law is coming down

Just hate to the streets with all your fire

They can't break you

But love knows they will try

You have the power

But you know

That the law is coming down

You have the power

But love knows they will try

You have the power

But love knows they will try

You have the power

Oh man

Oh horse green

Right here on Maxing Gradio

Don't you stop

That was awesome

You guys had a great performance

I've really enjoyed it

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