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Originally Posted by elle
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seems that officially it is not a band's choice, that members who are inducted are chosen according to how "worthy" of induction certain periods of that band are. however, it also seems there can be a lot of behind the scenes stuff going on, and after being selected for induction some bands insisted that e.g., all their members from any era be inducted. apparently, FM didn't.
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Some weird inductions of recent years include Robert Trujillo of Metallica and Josh Klinghoffer of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Both of them had only released 1 album with their respective bands and both of those albums were about 6 months old at the time of the inductions. At least Trujillo had already been in the band for 5 years before the album. Klinghoffer had not been on tour as an official member of the band before the album. Certainly if it were solely up to the powers that be, those two would not have been inducted. Another odd thing though is that at least every member of Metallica was inducted, but for RHCP they had some members in and others not including Dave Navarro who was part of only one album, but it was a successful one (2X Platinum) while the latest one with Klinghoffer was not particularly (Gold). So I'm not sure who makes the call in the end.