Actually thanks to the Danny Sapko video, I found out about the whole Giacomo Turra thing from last year.
Never heard of the guy before, but then again, I do not have Instagram.
For those of you who don't know what happened;
he stole licks,
he pretends he plays live
he pretends to have a certain level of virtuoso skills (when in fact his real live skills were -and I quote- between disastrous and forgettable.)
and he does the smug 'yeah we nailed this awesome take' nod to his bandmembers in their 'live' takes, when everything is too clean, pre-recorded BS.
Troy Grady, who I do know off since he had no grey hair and did an awesome rendition of NITRO's "Freight Train" 4 neck solo has done an excellent video pointing out what's wrong with all of this:
And for funsies,
The original NITRO solo video (at least 17 years old