{"id":1556,"date":"2007-12-07T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2015-10-15T20:14:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:14:37","slug":"team-sleep-meridian-houston-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/07\/team-sleep-meridian-houston-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Sleep &#8211; Meridian &#8211; Houston, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"contentpaneopen\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"70%\"><span class=\"small\">Written by Jennifer Carmona <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"createdate\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Dec 07, 2007 at 08:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.houstonmusicreview.com\/mambo\/images\/stories\/2007concert\/120707-teamsleep.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"6\" \/>Chino Moreno and Team Sleep performed for a massive crowd at the Meridian Friday night.\u00a0 Anticipation could be felt all over the room for the first note to be played.\u00a0 The audience couldn&#8217;t get close enough to the stage.\u00a0 It was packed full of people who wanted to hear the dreamy and methodic sounds of Team Sleep.\u00a0 The first beat dropped had everyone in a trance and ready for the rest of the show in this intimately spaced venue.<\/p>\n<p>The strings of guitarist, Todd Wilkinson, and bassist Rick Verrat led us into one of my favorite songs, Ever, followed by the tranquil drums of Zach Hill and DJ Crook working the mixing board. The crowd seemed mesmerized as the songs pined on.\u00a0 I enjoyed the lullaby like feel to this as well as being able to feel the bass all over my body from the speakers.<\/p>\n<p>A few patrons wanted to get up close and personal with the band by joining them on stage.\u00a0 Chino never missed a beat as he had his arm grabbed by a fan.\u00a0 They picked up the pace with songs like, King Diamond and a few other songs from their self-titled album, Team Sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The setting at the Meridian was dimly lit and obscure.\u00a0 Yet through the sea of shadowed fans Chino and the band really connected with the folks of Houston who made it out this evening.\u00a0 When the songs were fast paced and hype so was the crowd.\u00a0 When slower ballads were played the audience seemed to mellow and enjoy the melodic tunes.<\/p>\n<p>Team Sleep performed with energy and enthusiasm and appeared to have really enjoyed themselves.\u00a0 These guys put on an awesome show.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing them next time they come to Houston hopefully in the near future.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jennifer Carmona Dec 07, 2007 at 08:00 PM Chino Moreno and Team Sleep performed for a massive crowd at the Meridian Friday night.\u00a0 Anticipation could be felt all over the room for the first note to be played.\u00a0 The audience couldn&#8217;t get close enough to the stage.\u00a0 It was packed full of people&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/07\/team-sleep-meridian-houston-tx\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concert-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}