More people are aware of your business tactics.. The idea that you threaten to defame indie artists, when you do not have a leg to stand on is a shame!!
I know that for a fact that you nominated someone with 5 nominations, and removed him after he refused to do the sponsorship deal. Before you removed him, he had a lot people vote for him, including me. I emailed you and asked you where my voting money went and you never replied. So, you stole my money and you never refunded to the person in question. All of this documented. I am a successful Artist and you are only trying to rationalize your scamming behavior. I really don’t care how long you have been in the business, but your tactics are false and misleading. I proved this to you in a series of emails. You decided to start a business, you can’t and should not depend on the artist to fund your business venture!! Go to a bank and get the money!! But to prey on independent artists is disgusting!! You mentioned that you don’t go after the artists, but their team???? That is false and I can prove it, from the countless of emails you sent to hound the artists for more money. I have emails from other nominees that would say the same. I know one of the artists that won in the past years, that person told me that they had to spend a ton of money to get their award. An artist should win an award based on their musicality, performance, etc.. Why should anyone have to pay for their award?? I have been to your nominee event, and all you do is bad mouth the other awards shows, by saying “You started this first, and that you are the best??? Wrong, if you were the best, you would keep your mouth shut, and just people how good you are. You even posted on your Facebook page, that someone made a comment that someone stated that no one comes to your shows anymore. So, people are becoming more aware of your money pressure tactics. I have spoken to some of your sponsors, they say they will never work with you again, because you harassed them for more money!! They emailed me to give me that info. No other award show, that I am aware of, harasses the nominees for money. I forgot to mention the fact that for years you never mentioned to any of the nominees of any of the additional fees associated with nominations. It was I, that told you it was false and misleading and that when I mentioned that to you, you became very nasty with me. Enough is enough. You want to prove you are the best, put your money where your mouth is..Get sponsorships for the awards show with real businesses and use your own d*** money.
If you ever consider going with LA Music Awards or Al Bowman be forwarned that this is how he treats those who don't pay his extrosion fees & he has also gone out of his way to personal attack those who decline his exorbenant fees and choose an alternate road to sucess.
If you haven't already read all the other ripp-off alerts about Al Bowman (owner and founder) and his "award" show "LA Music awards" then i'm shocked.
Where can i start...
Our band submitted into the LA Music Awards website not so long ago.
Just like any other hopeful band we thought the LMA was a professional local award show.
Before doing our research on the show (to our very own dismay) we got a call from Al Bowman himself.
He kept say how "this award show will be the best thing that will happen to your band", "it's the greatest opportunity that any band/artist can have" ...blah blah blah
After his wonderous ploy and tactics of lowering our band into thinking he was a very honest man...we did some research of our own...
and so should you...
Type: LA MUSIC AWARDS SCAM and you'd see a couple reports on Al Bowman and his wonderful "business" tactics
after we found out that the LA Music Awards was a SCAM! We KINDLY wrote to him that our band could no longer be involved in the award show for PERSONAL reasons
He then went out of his way and treatened us in an email (which we still have) and wrote that
"THERE WILL BE NEGATIVE REPROCUSSIONS" if we pull out of the award show...basically treatening us
So, we got scared...what band wants to get sued?!
We decided we would do only ONE show (of the three that you have to pay $175.00 for each show not including the amount he charges to actually play the show)
After we played the "award" show we kindly wrote to Al Bowman that we couldn't be involved in the rest of his award show.
THEN...he started the whole social media attacks
Going to all of our personal Facebook pages bashing our band.
Overall, Al Bowman is the definiation of a SCAM ARTIST...we had to learn the hard way.
Hollywood ate this guys soul up...it trully is hard...
it took me a lot to have the guts to write up this review
Hope you artists and bands don't have to go through the drama and disgust that Al Bowman and his fake award show put us through!
LA Music Awards Reviews
More people are aware of your business tactics.. The idea that you threaten to defame indie artists, when you do not have a leg to stand on is a shame!!
I know that for a fact that you nominated someone with 5 nominations, and removed him after he refused to do the sponsorship deal. Before you removed him, he had a lot people vote for him, including me. I emailed you and asked you where my voting money went and you never replied. So, you stole my money and you never refunded to the person in question. All of this documented. I am a successful Artist and you are only trying to rationalize your scamming behavior. I really don’t care how long you have been in the business, but your tactics are false and misleading. I proved this to you in a series of emails. You decided to start a business, you can’t and should not depend on the artist to fund your business venture!! Go to a bank and get the money!! But to prey on independent artists is disgusting!! You mentioned that you don’t go after the artists, but their team???? That is false and I can prove it, from the countless of emails you sent to hound the artists for more money. I have emails from other nominees that would say the same. I know one of the artists that won in the past years, that person told me that they had to spend a ton of money to get their award. An artist should win an award based on their musicality, performance, etc.. Why should anyone have to pay for their award?? I have been to your nominee event, and all you do is bad mouth the other awards shows, by saying “You started this first, and that you are the best??? Wrong, if you were the best, you would keep your mouth shut, and just people how good you are. You even posted on your Facebook page, that someone made a comment that someone stated that no one comes to your shows anymore. So, people are becoming more aware of your money pressure tactics. I have spoken to some of your sponsors, they say they will never work with you again, because you harassed them for more money!! They emailed me to give me that info. No other award show, that I am aware of, harasses the nominees for money. I forgot to mention the fact that for years you never mentioned to any of the nominees of any of the additional fees associated with nominations. It was I, that told you it was false and misleading and that when I mentioned that to you, you became very nasty with me. Enough is enough. You want to prove you are the best, put your money where your mouth is..Get sponsorships for the awards show with real businesses and use your own d*** money.
If you ever consider going with LA Music Awards or Al Bowman be forwarned that this is how he treats those who don't pay his extrosion fees & he has also gone out of his way to personal attack those who decline his exorbenant fees and choose an alternate road to sucess.
If you haven't already read all the other ripp-off alerts about Al Bowman (owner and founder) and his "award" show "LA Music awards" then i'm shocked.
Where can i start...
Our band submitted into the LA Music Awards website not so long ago.
Just like any other hopeful band we thought the LMA was a professional local award show.
Before doing our research on the show (to our very own dismay) we got a call from Al Bowman himself.
He kept say how "this award show will be the best thing that will happen to your band", "it's the greatest opportunity that any band/artist can have" ...blah blah blah
After his wonderous ploy and tactics of lowering our band into thinking he was a very honest man...we did some research of our own...
and so should you...
Type: LA MUSIC AWARDS SCAM and you'd see a couple reports on Al Bowman and his wonderful "business" tactics
after we found out that the LA Music Awards was a SCAM! We KINDLY wrote to him that our band could no longer be involved in the award show for PERSONAL reasons
He then went out of his way and treatened us in an email (which we still have) and wrote that
"THERE WILL BE NEGATIVE REPROCUSSIONS" if we pull out of the award show...basically treatening us
So, we got scared...what band wants to get sued?!
We decided we would do only ONE show (of the three that you have to pay $175.00 for each show not including the amount he charges to actually play the show)
After we played the "award" show we kindly wrote to Al Bowman that we couldn't be involved in the rest of his award show.
THEN...he started the whole social media attacks
Going to all of our personal Facebook pages bashing our band.
Overall, Al Bowman is the definiation of a SCAM ARTIST...we had to learn the hard way.
Hollywood ate this guys soul up...it trully is hard...
it took me a lot to have the guts to write up this review
Hope you artists and bands don't have to go through the drama and disgust that Al Bowman and his fake award show put us through!