I can only talk about the Cologne gig since I had only seen the shows in Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne in 2013. In Munich I was stunned by the showmanship and energy he put into the performance and how he kept pushing on and on (it clocked at almost 190 minutes).
In Cologne I was hoping for one or two rarities since it was the last German show but they just kept belting out one surprise after another. What really helped (besides our group singing along on top of their lungs) was that the stadium created a giant reverb on the sound, so many flaws were really drowned out and I was absolutely stunned by the Love's The Only Rule performance and the wonderfully spot-on intro Phil played to Wild Is The Wind. After the show I said "If it all should end tonight, it was the perfect ending".
It may have been my final Jovi show, but in terms of what they could've delivered in their then-current line-up it couldn't have been any better.
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