Finger Eleven [ tickets ] is not a household name, but the up-and-coming Canadian rock quintet earned the right to play before packed arenas when it was selected as an opening act for portions of Creed [ tickets ]'s North American tour. Frontman Scott Anderson has agreed to provide liveDaily with a report from the road each weekday through the conclusion of the Creed tour, which also features Sevendust.

Finger Eleven's sophomore album, "The Greyest of Blue Skies," was released by Wind-Up Records (also home to Creed) in July. The group has since been taking its music to the road, mixing club and festival dates with its arena gigs.

On Wednesday night (12/6), the group opened for Creed in St. Louis.

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wednesday the sixth

in another airport. off to st. louis today. lots of time to write. no time to sleep, which is what i could really use. it's eight in the morning and i couldn't sleep last night. i feel fine now, but i'll crash any minute, surely.

last night's gig should have been way worse than it was. we weren't playing with our own equipment (we flew in with only a few pieces of it, the rest of the stuff's in st. louis, which is where we play tonight. don't ask me why, i think it was too expensive to do it any other way). playing with any equipment other than your own is kind of like feigning comfort in a strangers home. even if they do have a comfortable couch, it's hard to relax. and if you ask [drummer Rich Beddoe], he'd tell you that he certainly wasn't comfortable last night. if you were there, you may have noticed the drums scattered all over the stage toward the end of the set ... i think he made his point. no in-depth investigation necessary. i sing with in-ear monitors, which means you have little tiny headphones letting you hear exactly what you want to and nothing you don't. difficult to deal without 'em.

none of this mattered too much. providence has always been cool for us. my own words coming back to me from the crowd were loud and blissfully distracting. we played our half-hour, dried off and cut our losses.

Diary entry #2.

Diary entry #1.