Aerosmith : Draw The Line

CHECKMATE HONEY, 

BEAT YA AT YOUR 

OWN DAMN GAME

NO DICE HONEY, 

I'M LIVIN' ON AN

 ASTRAL PLANE..

Draw the Line

 is the fifth 

studio album

 by American

 hard rock band 

Aerosmith, 

released on 

December 9, 1977. 

It was recorded between

 June–October

 in an abandoned 

convent near 

New York City. 

The portrait of the band 

on the album cover 

was drawn by

 the celebrity caricaturist

 Al Hirschfeld. 

 Background 

By 1977, 

Aerosmith had released

 four studio albums, 

the two most recent

 Toys in the Attic

 (1975) 

and

 Rocks 

(1976) 

 catapulting the band

 to stardom. 

However, 

as the band began 

recording its

 next album,

 Draw the Line,

 their excessive lifestyle, 

combined with

 constant touring 

and drug use, 

began to take its toll. 

"Draw the Line 

was untogether because

 we weren't a cohesive

 unit anymore," 

guitarist 

Joe Perry

 admitted in the

 Stephen Davis 

band memoir

 Walk This Way. "

We were drug addicts 

dabbling in music,

 rather than musicians 

dabbling in drugs

Largely due to their

 drug consumption, 

both Tyler 

and Perry 

were not as

 involved in the writing 

and recording 

as they had been 

on previous albums.

 According to Perry:

 "A lot of people had input

 into that record 

because Steven

 and I had stopped

 giving a fuck.

 "Draw the Line,"

 "I Want To Know Why," 

and

 "Get It Up" 

were the only things

 Steven and I 

wrote together.

 Tom, Joey 

and Steven 

came up with

 "Kings and Queens,"

 and Brad

 played rhythm 

and lead. 

Brad and Steven 

wrote

 "The Hand That Feeds," 

which I didn't even play on

 because I'd stayed in bed

 the day they recorded it

 and Brad played

 great on it anyway.

For his part,

Tyler has maintained that

 it was the band's lethargy,

 not his, 

that slowed his progress,

 because

 "I wasn't Patti Smith

 writing poetry. 

I write exactly to

 the music,

 and when the music 

ain't coming,

 neither were

 the lyrics."

 However, 

Tyler confessed to

 Alan di Perna of 

Guitar World

 in April 1997,

 "What I specifically remember was 

not being present

 in the studio because 

I was so stoned.

 In the past, 

I always had to be there 

and hear every note 

that was going down

  who was playing what 

and were they out of tune ...

 I just didn't care anymore."

TRACK LIST

Draw the Line

I Wanna Know Why

Critical Mass

Get It Up

Bright Light Fright

Kings and Queens

The Hand That Feeds

Sight for Sore Eyes

Milk Cow Blues

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