Canada's Kobra And The Lotus have posted the first in a series of behind-the-scenes Digital Tour Bus blogs from their current tour supporting KISS and Def Leppard. An excerpt is available below:

"Midnight in Calgary, Canada, we are live on the air with our local radio station CJSW, sending us off to pull a full all-nighter packing for the plane we have to catch 6 hours later. Barely getting all our baggage checked in on time, we miraculously made it onto the plane and came out on the other side at Salt Lake City with only two bags missing. Our bus waiting at the curb…time for the big rock show!!

Every massive LCD screen on the KISS stage has hundreds of separate wireless signals for every 1 foot by 1 foot section. This caused mass interference with all the wireless units for our instruments. During our entire set, on the 'kick-off' show, both guitar and bass kept dropping in and out as well as us having random radio music playing in our wireless in-ear systems!! It was like playing the show with a bunch of ghosts hovering around us.

Rolling on into Denver the next day, load in and sound check was derailed by a spider! It was the first stadium show doing set-up for the KISS Spider and ALL things fell waaayyy behind. As the opening band, we are at the mercy of whatever schedule comes our way. Doors opened, we threw our gear up sporadically, 5 minutes before set time, hoping all would work properly. One of our guitarists even plugged his guitar into a Dummy head on the ENGL amp stack throwing him into a complete fluster. Miracle of miracles, everything worked…sound came out! As we charged through the set, we passed our 30 minute mark by 30 seconds and the sound was cut on us. Still rocking out full force on stage, it took us a good 15 seconds to realize there was no more sound coming out toward the audience. We had no choice but to throw some horns to the audience and get the hell off the stage. It was hysterical!"

Go to this location for the complete blog and more photos.

Kobra And The Lotus on tour supporting KISS and Def Leppard:

July

15 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
16 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
18 - Atlanta, GA - Aaron's Amphitheater At Lakewood
19 - Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion
20 - Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheater
22 - West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Amphitheatre
23 - Tampa, FL - MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater
25 - Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live
26 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center

August

1 - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center
2 - Toronto, ON - Molson Canadian Amphitheatre