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Beloved Australian musician from '60s psychedelic band Tamam Shud dead at 79: 'Aussie rock royalty'

Beloved Australian musician Alex 'Zack' Zytnik has died, aged 79.

News of the sonic architect's (pictured second left) passing broke on social media and friends and fans were quick to offer their tributes. Rock historian Ian McFarlane said the band were one of the first in Australia to be influenced by the psuchedelic sounds coming out of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene of the 1960s. 'Tamam Shud was one of the first local bands to embrace the late 1960s psychedelic sounds of Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Eric Burdon and The (New) Animals, plus the San Francisco stylings of The Grateful Dead and their ilk,' he wrote.

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