The Dr. Feelgood Tour was Motley Crue at maximum volume. On April 10, 1990, they brought the whole circus to Binghamton’s Broome County Arena — the only number-one album of their career, a stage production built around Tommy Lee’s rotating drum cage and enough pyrotechnics to light up the Southern Tier sky, and a band that had clawed its way back from the edge of self-destruction. Dr. Feelgood debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. “Kickstart My Heart,” “Dr. Feelgood,” and “Without You” were all over the radio. Nikki Sixx had survived a heroin overdose that became the inspiration for the album’s title track. Vince Neil was at his vocal peak. Mick Mars played with the grim intensity of a man who had never once smiled on stage and didn’t plan to start. For the Southern Tier faithful who packed the Broome County Arena that April night, this was the biggest, loudest, most unapologetically excessive rock show money could buy.
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