Why isn't SRV in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

RRHOF is a bad joke, but if it weren't, there would be little reason to put SRV in...take the Hendrix out of SRV and there aint' much left. To put it mildly though there are many other genuinely absurd omissions.

Not claiming that SRV is strictly a Hendrix clone, but people who say that he somehow went back and built on Albert King, Magic Sam, Gatemouth Brown and others, (magically eliminating his post Hendrix core) are delusional and completely lacking in critical thinking skills. SRV covered Hendrix tunes more than he covered any other artists tunes. He played a strat, (King's main axe was a flying V). SRV even dressed like Jimi. Fact is you take away what SRV copped from Hendrix and there isn't a whole lot left.

...caught him perform twice, owned most of his recorded output, saw the DVD w/ Albert King...it's quantifiable that SRV got way more from Jimi than he did from Albert. To his credit, Vaughan demonstrated that he could produce compelling results while operating almost exclusively in the Hendrix universe. Rockdanny on the other hand has demonstrated that there's a lot of real estate between what he knows and what he presumes to know.

The RRHOF is a "hall of fame", and by definition not necessarily obliged to acknowledge innovators or those who expanded the vocabulary of rock music, so I guess we shouldn't expect to see Area, Can, Captain Beefheart, King Crimson or Van der Graaf Generator inducted anytime soon. This aside, i'll beat a dead horse one more time while thanking Rockdanny for taking the high road regarding an earlier comment.
Here's the deal. Hendrix used feedback, vibrato, volume and pedal effects in ways that none of his predecessors did. SRV absorbed and emulated what Jimi did at an early stage of his development and cited Hendrix as his primary inspiration in several interviews. Those hanging onto the notion that SRV (who admittedly has a solid blues foundation) eclipsed Jimi or is not mostly Hendrix based as a player are dead wrong. It could rationally be argued that guys like Jean Paul Bourelly, Kido Natsuki, Akin Eldes, David Fiuczynski, Bambi Fossati, Ax Generich, David Torn, Sonny Sharrock, Larry Coryell and John McLaughlin (circa Devotion) have reached higher while standing on Jimi's shoulders.

Tostado...The McLaughlin Devotion record would never have been made were it not for Hendrix. Same is true w/ much of Coryell's output, (you could find this out by getting more familiar w/ his recordings or by just asking him). I dig Winter a lot too and suppose HOF is nice for those who get in even if it often has zero to do w/ an artists musical achievements or impact.

The post you responded to specifically refers to the Devotion record. This one as previously stated would not have been made unless McLaughlin absorbed A LOT of Hendrix. On many other releases McLaughlin also demonstrates that he's listened to Hendrix, (this doesn't mean he sounds just like him). No big deal... you're entitled to an opinion, even a poorly informed one.
I haven't been to an Oz Noy show, but picked up five of his recordings. Liked Ha, Twisted Blues and Live enough to keep em'. He really comes up w/ some interesting bits, but can get stuck in clichés and a metronomic use of percussion, (maybe not as bad in this department as Satriani). If Oz Noy played nearby I'd want to check it out, even if he's not one of those guys who you'd always recognize after hearing him go for five seconds.

IMO McLaughlin and Hendrix were key figures in pushing the boundaries of electric guitar playing. Hendrix was at his peak before McLaughlin and provided a huge field of reference that pretty much changed the ground rules for everyone. To say that McLaughlin was "standing on the shoulders" as a figurative in reference to the Devotion album shouldn't seem out of line to an informed listener. It would be way more off the mark to say he sounds nothing like Hendrix. Obviously JM is familiar w/ Hendrix recordings. He can't unhear them and probably wouldn't want to. Both players absorbed and were influenced by stuff from all over the map and both shared quite a bit of musical DNA. In interviews it sometimes turns out that the sources they drew from to develop as players are not readily apparent.
To sort of get back to the topic of the post, can't speak for the RROF, but SRV is too conspicuously derivative to be on my top 100 guitarist list, (I know BFD).