Photo: Courtesy of Max Slayton Funerals & CremationsChad Lovell, a member of foundational Dallas rock band Course of Empire and a key figure in Deep Ellum’s creative life as a sound engineer at the now-defunct Curtain Club, died on July 21 in Garland. “Chad was just brilliant, but he wasn’t overt with it,” Lovell’s mother, Yvonne, told the Dallas Morning News. Mike Graff, Lovell’s bandmate in Course of Empire, told the Dallas Observer the late musician “just loved art and creativity.” “I was hanging out with Chad at the Course of Empire studio during the time they were recording Telepathic Last Words,” Morris wrote. CORRECTION: This post was updated to clarify Chris Morris’s role with Course of Empire.