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Having a bandmate who hates about half the music you listen to

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Christophe:
So I have a friend who plays bass and guitar for a local band whose style is kind-of a mix of Carlos Santana and early Pink Floyd... ok, who am I shitting, they sound like the Mars Volta sans vox, but they're cool nonetheless.

I've jammed with this friend and hung out with him for some time now, and we get along well, and have similar music tastes to the tune(s) of Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, Arcade Fire, The Rapture, Radiohead, Talking Heads etc. But when it comes to anything remotely punk or "rock-and-roll" like Fugazi, Drive Like Jehu, Mission of Burma, anything remotely noisy or punky and he hates it. Going back to town from a show last night, I had control of the mp3 player and played some stuff, some of which he liked, some of which he didn't- what irked me is that he had the gall to tell me "this song sucks!" in reference to Burma's "Secrets". Whatever, he can say whatever he wanted to but that was a little rude, if anything. I enjoy jamming with him but I feel that when we start writing songs, he might cramp some of my style, by probably not letting me let out a Rick Frobergian scream or something.

What should I do? Should I keep jamming with him, knowing full well that I can't put out all my influences on the table, or just say "dude, it's not going to work out", as potentially awkward and stupid that is?

IronOxide:
You should never work with him on anything.

It is a scientific fact two people with even slightly different viewpoints can never do anything productive.

Actually, if you can even avoid speaking to him, it would probably be for the best.

Caspian:
Me and my drumming friend have this problem as well, although we literally have two bands in common: Pre Black Album Metallica, and Electric Wizard's 'Dopethrone' album. nonetheless, our jams are always great, though that may be because he's half deaf and can't always hear what I'm playing. We just play really slow stoner jams eevry time we're together.

Misereatur:
My old highschool jazz band hated all of the music I listened to at the time.

Most of them are still good friends of mine, and we jam together once in a while when we have the time.

Johnny C:
Honestly it's fine as long as it doesn't interfere with the band. It really is.

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