Excellent blog. However, if the friend in question who liked country was a girl, I would not turn my back on her. I would put her on her back, and just never return her calls. Some things are just unforgivable, and country is one of them
On a serious note though, I absolutely agree with you. One of my best friends is into crap like shoegaze and noise. I hate it, he loves it. When we start drinking beer we quit around 7 in the morning and we have headaches for the next 2 days. I still think my musical taste is superior, but that's just a question of the skill of musicians. Let's face it. There is absolutely no guitarist on earth who can do what a malmsteen can do. It's fact. And all the other brilliant guitarists out there are either in classical, jazz or metal. The only drummer to top what Morten Lowe is doing at the moment, will be a metal drummer. And name me one non-opera male vocalist who has the vocal range of a Mark Boals, Goran Edman, Daniel Gildenlow, Buddy Lackey, David Readman, Andy Kuntz. Or dozens of others. Or a floor Jansen, Anneke van Giersbergen? Anyone?
Metal is blessed with a plethora of unbelievably talented musicians and yet it's still the most ridiculed type of music on the planet. I know you can't judge someone based on their taste, but I still think anyone stupid enough to think Slash or Eric Clapton is the best guitarist in the world, is nothing more than a complete and utter moron.
And I tend to tell them that too
