Captain Standish

Inducted: April 2008

Head-banging rock music — Mankato knows it well.
Choppers and the What’s Up Lounge have welcomed area hard rock bands to play loud and rev up the crowds.
Captain Standish has added to that scene for the past three years. The band — Trent Fast (guitars and vocals), Jake Willaert (bass and vocals) and Josh Willaert (drums) — plays in Mankato about once a month and has recorded two self-released albums, “Prepare For Pain” and “From Above So Below Me.”
They describe their music as “100 percent, all-original, Grade A, Midwestern rock and roll,” which they practice in the basement of their drummer in St. Peter.
“Whether you love to throw up the horns and head bang or if you’d prefer to do the twist, you’ll find yourself moving in one way or another to the music,” the band wrote.



To read a Q&A with the band, click here.

To hear some music, click here.