AUSTIN, TX — Sound engineer and longtime Meyer Sound exec Mike Cooper passed away Aug. 15 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 70. Starting out as a bass and guitar player, Cooper performed at Austin’s Armadillo Club before mixing sound there early in his career. He then hit the road as a monitor engineer for Styx in 1983, and joined Meyer Sound in 1995. A memorial gathering is planned at Threadgills in Austin on Oct. 14.
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