Stone Roses Turned Down Slash As Member

Ibrahim served as replacement live guitarist in the Manchester band after John Squire departed the group in 1996.

"There had been auditions. Slash had offered to play," Ibrahim recently said on the StageLeft podcast. "There was a lot of bitterness and anger and so forth, maybe they wanted to piss [Squire] off, so they thought, ‘Let’s get the greatest rock icon of all time.'"

"Slash was in England and his manager wanted to manage the [Stone] Roses," Ibrahim continued.

"They thought, ‘Yeah yeah, we’ll get this big rock icon, that would really annoy John.’ Then they said something to the affect of, ‘We’re not going to work with a guy with leather pants, are we?' So Slash wasn't in".