Who were the Go-Set? (First masthead)

Masthead (2 February 1966)

The masthead lists 6 people, it does not list Phillip Frazer (he would eventually run Go-Set as founder owner), who was kept off the list due to a possible clash with his studies at university. It does not mention the two disc reviewers, who are acknowledged on the review page. Of those it does mention, Peter Raphael managed the Moods, a group I have mentioned in an earlier blog. He is something of an entrepreneur, and it was his association with Collin (sic) Beard that brought Colin Beard into the magazine.
Douglas L. Panther was then, an adventurer, not intimidated by the establishment, and a huge risk-taker. My thesis research indicated that Doug Panther was offered a management position, but could not take it at the time due to his "being on the run" (see the thesis for more details-I will go into this in more detail in a later blog).
Two members on the list of which I have no information are photographer Ken Montgomery and features writer, Mike O Nash. I am after information on both these people so more interviews will be needed. However Go-Set did use pseudonyms in some cases. I believe, and I may be wrong, that the name Mike O Nash was such a ploy, for whom, at the moment I can only guess. The reason i say this is that the first issue was largely compiled by the team of Lot's Wife during the Christmas holiday period at the end of 1966. On the staff at the time, and interested in the pop venture were Damien Broderick, Pete Steedman and Ross Laird, and Chris Hector, of these Laird and Hector would go on to produce jazz and folk columns. Steedman would eventually get into politics. However, the real intellectual was Broderick, who with his sardonic sense of humour, would pursue an interesting life, as editor of different magazines, and other things. My belief is that it is Broderick who wrote various features under different pseudonyms, and I believe that Mike O Nash may have been one of those. Further research may prove otherwise!! 
Finally (but not final) Go-Set was published by Waverley Offset Printers. The same printers that printed Lot's Wife. The story behind this will be explored in a later post.
If anybody has any information then please email me.