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

With total disrespect, I look at some of the "artists" who are enshrined here and I find it hard to believe; actually I am shocked that they have never included Stevie Ray Vaughn. If he doesn't deserve enshrinement something is really wrong. What gives?
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onhwy61
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He's only been eligible since 2009. Albert King only got in in 2013. Would you really enshrine SRV before Albert King got his due?
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Why should SRV get in before Johnny Winters or Hubert Sumlin? Winters has had a more varied and interesting career (it helps to live longer) and Sumlin is by far the more influential guitarist.
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Albert King was a major influence for both Jimi Hendrix and SRV. Hendrix and King were both left handed and played guitar with the strings upside down. Hendrix was primarily a Fender Strat player, but he also used a Gibson Flying V, the guitar that King used.
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Duanegoosen, regarding Hendrix and McLaughlin -- do you hear the Hendrix influence on "My Goal's Beyond"? An album made by McLaughlin around the same time as "Devotion". Do you hear the Hendrix influence on McLaughlin on any of his Miles Davis or Tony Williams Lifetime recordings from this time period? I don't, but that just my opinion.
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