And this was roughly Aerosmith's version of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, except that in Aerosmith's case, they did it on a bigger, better, and far more dangerous scale. Draw The Line contains the same amount - no, maybe more energy than Rocks and Toys in the Attic - but most definitely, the vibe is different than those two records. The band is more jittery, unfocused, harder to get a read on, and - like the average crackhead on the street - paranoid with everything it comes into contact with, either real or imagined. The title track kicks off the affair on a riff and groove as ferocious and brutal as anything they have done before, but even here, the mindset is on the next hit to keep the high going. "I Wanna Know Why" is where the paranoia really kicks in. And then "Critical Mass" starts a run of tracks where it is all too obvious - too many drugs, not enough sleep, and it is really falling apart. "Get It Up" is one of the most grotesque songs in Aerosmith's 70's catalog. I don't even know how to describe the actual style - all I know is, they have reached the point of the party where everyone is too trashed to care about anything, and now the old, decrepit hookers and dealers have made their presence known, which might be why Tyler sings repeatedly that he "can't get it up". And it ends with the approximation of a clock slowly ticking away. It's beyond surreal. And then, a couple of tracks later, we get "Kings and Queens", a different bout of surrealism meant to take us back to medieval times...but it’s just another indicator of how much these guys were losing the plot. They never truly recovered from this debacle but left us with a most fascinating crash-and-burn aural document, if that is any consolation.