AC/DC, Rage Against The Machine & Aerosmith. What are your memories & highlights of 2010?

Heading to 3rd Stage first thing on Friday as a complete gamble to see Year Long Disaster.  Had no idea they were actually Karma To Burn with the son of a Kink on vocals.  Was the biggest surprise and one of the best sets of the weekend.  3rd stage also had Sybreed who were amazing.
 
Scott Weiland unable to string a sentence together between songs was quite funny in a rather tragic kind of way.
 
That said, biggest highlight - Rage were untouchable!

Either Stone Sour playing Bother or seeing Killswitch Engage's last ever UK Show with Howard :)

Unearth
As I Lay Dying
Enemo J, Christ I was not ready for his set.
The 'wrestling show' which wasn't. The crowd made up for it though.
Rock Sugar, thanking myself for converting so many people to them.
Actually just spending the weekend being lazy as opposed to running around like an idiot trying to see everything I could.
 

Slash, ACDC, Saxon & Aerosmith were fantastic on main stage, but Y&T and Skin in the tent on Saturday evening were the real highlights for me.

brilliant weekend, AC/DC regardless of how much they cost and demanded they ****ing killed it!
Rage against the machine!!!
Dillinger escape plan in the rain!!
deftones and lamb of god
Killswitch enagage! (seen them so many times, even just at download)
security stopping as i lay dying's set because of the circle pit. so when they started it just got bigger (looking forward tot hem this year)
mate drinking my piss and enjoying it :D
left early on the Sunday due to being ill so gutted missing aerosmith

after the mind numbingly awfull tcv i found myself right at the front for acdc which blew the place away n i had a great time but they,re terms were 2 high so never again thank u v much. slash n myles stole the weekend with a breathtaking performance as they did at glasto so hopeing for more of the same this year with the dilema of a slash prodigy dtp clash grrr.

Yep TCV were pretty dull, apart from John Paul Jones who shat all over the rest of the band and made them almost worth seeing just to watch him

The good:
 
Saw more bands this year than I've ever seen at a festival. Truly got my money's worth. I would highly recommend that everybody checks out bands before going, and go see as many of the ones you thought sounded ok as possible. Prior festivals I intentionally went to see 5-6 bands tops and totally missed out.
 
AC/DC - even though I'd forked out more money than I like to admit to go see their show at the 02, assuming they wouldn't do festivals. Seriously good show that I think is hard for another headliner to top.  The two-stage thing was a bonus for the whole weekend too, because when bands played the other stage, you could stand quite comfortably near the AC/DC stage, be able to see, but not squashed.
 
RATM - saw them before the break up at Leeds 2000, as a very young 17 year old, having not heard their stuff before, with not much clue to how good they were. Download 2010 finally got to rock out and pay them the respect they deserve. Realised I was an old fart though because I told off some kids in front of me who were trying to start a mosh-pit in a section where people were just trying to watch the show. Told them to go further down to the front to find the mosh pits.
 
Aerosmith were awesome. Saw them at Hard Rock Calling few years ago, and the show was pants. Seemed to last only about 40 minutes, and left pretty miserable. Download 2010 set made up for that disappointment. Powered through the rain to see it, and was totally worth it.
 
Airbourne...watching that crazy lead singer climb up the stage scaffolding in horizontal rain...was sure he was gonna fall. Even through the rain still managed an awesome set.
 
Steel Panther. Never really heard of, or paid much attention to Steel Panther before Download 2010. My husband wanted to check out the set, and I'd promised if he came to see Rock Sugar with me I'd go with him to see Steel Panther. It'd just been p*ssing down and everybody was wet and miserable. I was sure I'd hate it, but they put on such a great show, it really picked up our spirits. Left a smile on my face for the rest of the day.
 
As above mentioned Rock Sugar. Such a great show. Also Godsized were excellent.
 
Starseed on Jagermeister stage. Have become a lifelong fan. I really hope they make it big they are fantastic. Really mad at myself for missing Download 2011 when they played a bigger stage.
 
The bad:
 
Really don't have anything else to complain about from 2010, except my own stupid choice to camp off-site at another campsite.
 
*Edit* Also, on the Sunday, it started off blazing hot. I stupidly decided to swap my sensible hiking boots for a pair of crocs. Guess what? It lashed down. Camping off-site I had no other option than to put up with it. I ended up layering my feet with a pair of socks, then sticking a pair of sandwich bags on my feet, another pair of socks, and then the crocs. Actually stayed pretty water tight for most of the day. Absolutely disgusting to clean though on the Monday!

am sure it was seriously hot on ACDC day? Crooked Vultures were bit dull, would suited a 40 minute set and i smoked 40 pallmall i think.

my first download.not been donnington since MOR in 92.Took my 13 yr old daughter and we had the best time ever.10th time seeing AC/DC,what a show,blew us away,dont care how much they cost.highlights for me,Stone Sour,getting all emotional to Sweet child o mine and seeing my daughters face when she met 30STM.For my daughter,meeting 30STM,watching 30 STM,Slash and watching AC/DC for the first time.But my biggest memory was how friendly everybody was to us,so god bless you all for that and see you in June[sm=food-smiley-004.gif]
oh yeah forgot about 5fdp inviting the crowd to surf to them,faf

Deciding not to go back the campsite when the rain starting and witnessing one of my all time favourite Motorhead shows. Being soaked through to the inside of my wallet but not caring because I was at the front for Aerosmith
 

ACDC bringing their own stage (yes it was annoying having two and they didn't put their name on the lineup but..)
Killswitch Engage's last performance with Howard
The part in Slash's set that the camera cut to the girl...(if you where there you know)
The rain on Sunday
Rage against the machine having to stop to ask the crowd to calm down

My first Download festival. Working in education , I cant get Fridays off , so I just managed to meet my mates in the arena for TCV . AC/DC were beyond awesome. Started drinking much too early on the Saturday and never ventured further than the Village on the Saturday ( something I really regret now ). I ended up in a bit of a state listening to RATM in my tent !. The Sunday was superb , Slash a real highlight but also Saxon , Motorhead , Cinderella + Billy Idol. Ended up soaked + freezing and departed before Aerosmith ( something else I really regret ). Awesome festival.

Rain!

Seeing Weezer and Limp Bizkit at Reading cos I went to see Blink...
Utter disappointment.
A little bit died inside me when I realised what they'd become.
Wish I'd have been at D/L watching AC/DC instead.  

rockdave73 
The Sunday was superb , Slash a real highlight but also Saxon , Motorhead , Cinderella + Billy Idol. Ended up soaked + freezing and departed before Aerosmith ( something else I really regret ). Awesome festival.

Totally agree with this!  It was an awesome festival only spoilt a wee bit by the stupid rain (it didnt affect us too much cos we got our poncho's out as soon as it started) but until then the Sunday was excellent, one great moment was seeing Cinderella playing Gypsy Road and a rather epic Don't Know What You've Got(Till Its Gone) and the first time hearing Myles singing G n'R songs!

Just to see Killswitch, Bullet and AC/DC all in the same day was a true highlight for me

Been tellin my boy's about ACDC at Donnington for so many years, they got me actually going again and then seeing them together was special along with friends, one of the moments of my life.

2010 was good, it was just a lot of waiting around for the headliners.
As for the Sunday, everyone got owned by the rain. Glad that I was staying at a mates house in Derby on the sunday night!
 
Friday: Taylor Hawkins & The Coat-tail Riders, AC/DC
Saturday: Lamb of God, Megadeth, Rage Against the Machine
Sunday: Saxon, Slash, Steel Panther, Airbourne, Aerosmith