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What we know as facts about Guy Lacombe, Monique Beausoleil and their company BSM
BSM present themselves as a promotion, management and booking agency. Guy recently started with a record label. They also pretend to have a merchandising company. Their rate is 299 US$/month for promotion (but that seems to vary depending on who they are dealing with).
Starting out very friendly, but only on Facebook. They systematically contacted many bands already signed with one independant record company and promised them major tours in 2014 and CD distribution through Quebecor. They convinced everyone that BSM was a dream come true.
This is what really happened: BSM pretended to be a very big company with more than 15 employees. Not true. BSM only has Guy Lacombe and his girlfriend (who isn't even able to do decent administration work). They rely on volunteers to do their work. All these volunteers worked for them for the love of music, to help the BSM artists. The longer you work for them, the more demanding they become.
A longstanding employee for Musea Records, journalist and reviewer, worked a few months for them from 9am till ... 3am! We know that Guy behaved in the most evil fashion with him. Musea records themselves, said this: We had only distribution proposal from him when asked for some details and we never get any answer (although it was very simple questions such as his price policy), so we rapidly concluded that he was a mythoman
Guy found a graphic designer who is a member of a band and asked them to build them a website. Over a period of weeks, Guy was provided with a total new corporate identity (such as a new logo etc...) and a brand new website. This work is worth thousands of dollars. BSM promised to promote that band and also promised them a tour in Canada and the USA. They offered to do this for free, because the (little known) band was so outstanding. He also said he would pay tehm from October 1st. October arrived and Guy dropped the band, grabbed control of his free website and cut off all contact with tehm. No explanation has ever been given BUT he has told others that he has lawyers working for him who will "be knocking on their door soon"
Total value of work done: Website + web updates is about $4, 500 US, other graphic work is about $1, 500 US, corporate identity such as his logos: at least $1, 000 US.
Corvus Stone sent him more than 120 CDs as he told them he had a "deal" for mass exposure, radio, even TV ads and placing in all CD outlets in Canada and USA. Weeks later, he had not even opened the box of CDs. So he had them for about $2000 US and he didn't pay tax on import.
He told them that Quebecor wants Corvus Stone and Oceans 5 as "they are so good".
We know that bands pay him monthly for promotion. There is none. he posts things on FB and that is all.
We know he has done similar things with many bands. From the moment that they confront him with his lies, he dumps them and/or threatens them.
When the volunteers asked for less workload and reasonable hours, he starts to threaten them too. He did that with lots of volunteers.
Everybody involved with BSM have been contacted: artists, bands, volunteers, contacts, etc.. Many told the same story.
The common thread is that he NEVER shows any proof he did anything. Not even one thing that he promised.
He is invisible on Google and that is because "Oh we are too big for that"!
Guy Lacombe also claims to have a masters degree in international marketing.
We have all this and much more in writing from Guy Lacombe of course.
This is a fraction of what we know already and this is all being passed to the Police PDQ 49
Montréal (QC) H1B 4A4
Telephone: [protected]
(already started),
Canadian revenue authorities http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/menu-e.html (also started)
Quebecor are being alerted that Guy Lacombe and Monique Beausoleil are using their name in fraudulant activities.
All we can hope is that GUY LACOMBE will be stopped from wrecking the future for innocent people any more.
Almost all of his helpers and bands have now left him or been dropped.
He shut his website in panic, as it was full of lies.
He blocks anyone on Facebook from saying anything, so his remaining friends won't find out.
We are quite certain he is running away from it all now. He shut his website, He and Monique closed their Facebook profiles and everyone connected with him now realises that any suspicions they had about BSM were well founded.

3 addresses we know are: 7, Lafontaine St., Oka, QC, J0N 1E0, Canada and 1210 Rue Oscar Benoit Montreal QC H1A5E6
28 Lambert Oka, Quebec, Canada, JON 1E0
Email: [protected]@speedpost.net Telephones:CAN: [protected]) 642-4262, [protected], U.S. [protected], mobile SMS [protected]

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Update by Corvus Stone
Nov 30, 2013 7:41 am EST

More information keeps coming about Guy Lacombe. It is uncertain if he is stable. Much of what he does now could indicate someone who can't distinguish reality from gagaland. It will be hard for anyone to get their money back from him. For one thing, the taxman always gets paid first. This is not a good situation.

Update by Corvus Stone
Nov 30, 2013 4:10 pm EST

Oh damn!
I suspected there was a bad history but he really doesn't care. Maybe an ex con? Scary stuff! He is still trying to take money even today, from unsuspecting bands.

Update by Corvus Stone
Dec 01, 2013 2:38 pm EST

People like Guy Lacombe and Monique Beausoliel will not stop till they are stopped by the authorities. That takes time, so till then updates of all sites that pop up advertising BSM and their so called record company, will get posted here and all revelvant places.

http://www.backstagemontrealrecords.com/

https://www.facebook.com/GLacombe01?fref=ts

https://twitter.com/BackStageMTL

https://www.facebook.com/guylaine.seguin.142?fref=ts

There are others but they never use them really.

Update by Corvus Stone
Dec 04, 2013 2:10 pm EST

IMPORTANT: Guy Lacombe committed all of his crimes alone. He is an evil man and used Monique. He also emptied her bank acount!
What we know as facts about Guy Lacombe and his ex company BSM. It is time for everyone to help with any info they have. To help others! The police are now after him for theft, fraud and other crimes.

NEW FACT: Guy Lacombe has stolen 1000s of dollars from a woman who worked for him for months. He used her good name, her house and as time went on, became abusive to her, never paid her, ran up her bills and stole all her and her father's money. The police now want him. As we suspected, Guy is a very bad man and needed stopping. PLEASE share this everywhere. Surely the time for staying quiet has stopped.
The woman's name is Monique & people who spoke with her always told me she sounds like a kind woman. I can confirm that she is. I spoke with her today. She is also now broke and devastated.

Guy lacombe gives various addresses but none of them are his own. He was based in Oka Montreal but now seems to have disappeared.

Update by Corvus Stone
Nov 14, 2014 2:24 pm EST

The band you speak of in France were warned time and time again that he had hurt a lot of people and was dangerous. They ignored everything and clearly didn't care about anybody but themselves. That is the real problem. Until the police put him away, there will always be idiots in the music world and he will keep doing it. He may be in prison in Montreal but not sure.

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Charlotte LC
Saint-Joseph-du-lac, CA
Oct 05, 2019 1:45 pm EDT

Hi, it's been 5 years since the last comment. I have updates. Guy Lacombe is still a con man. He was brought to us last may because he didn't have any place to stay. I live with my mom, and we had a 2 and a half appartment available for him. He was presented to us as an alleged victim of the spring's floads of Saint-Joseph-du-Lac.

He said he had a music company called "Concert first" and that he was preparing concerts in Chicago, New Orleans, New York, London UK, and Melbourn. He claimed having a lot of money with this company, but this money was supposedly freezed/retained by the AMF (Autorite des Marches Financiers du Quebec) because he didn't pay his taxes.
Rapidly, my mom got involved with him. At the time, we wanted to sell the house and he knew about it, so he proposed to buy the house. But in order to do that, he needed to "clear the air" with the AMF so he could have access to his money. So he asked money to my mom, which she would supposedly get back in time. He took a lot from her in the last 5 months. We only know now because the police of Montreal arrested him last week for fraud and they updated us about him. They arrested him because he extorted a lot of money from a man who owns a label company (music production) 3 years ago. So we can concluded he never stop stealing from people.

Those investigators were a blessing in our life. He played us, and we are now filling a complain against him. He is currently waiting in Bordeau's jail to see the prosecutor next Thuesday. We hope we won't get out before his trial.

Please be careful. His facebook name is "John walker" : https://www.facebook.com/jcblues62
He is 57 years old, french, very charismatic and convincing.

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Charlotte LC
Saint-Joseph-du-lac, CA
Oct 05, 2019 1:57 pm EDT

We also think he has an accomplice, because he was regularly receiving phone calls from his "attorney" about the concerts and about the amount of money due to the AMF and other government institutions.

And just to top it all, he faked that he had lungs and throat cancer, so that's why he couldn't help around or go to work... He is a pathological liar.

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Montreal, CA
Nov 14, 2014 1:30 pm EST

I was working with him for a while booking shows at Alizé under this FB page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008310350410&fref=ts. We're talking around summer 2014. Havent heard from him since september.
Good thing I only booked a few shows with him, most of them i managed to move somewhere else and get the bands what was planned. Except for one single show (the first one I had with him) happening at Alizé on july 19th . He left with the door money, paying the bands with bouncing checks
2 x 150$. He left that night with not much, maybe 100$. But still bands are pissed, they were out-of-towners. Really bad for my own reputation.

He was also totally in admiration with my band, wanted to send me play the US, said he was gonna help with my last Europe tour, he never helped in anyway...which was kind of our deal, getting him bands to play Alizé in exchange for some pushing internationally. He even talked about having us to play Metropolis with of his "acts".

That is my own personal story about that guy. But I have really really close friends who got screwed way more than I was. He was offering contracts for touring and booking with huge deal and really good money which anyone would have signed. I also heard about him screwing a band from France for thousands from his office above Alizé.

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montreal, CA
Nov 14, 2014 11:48 am EST

Hi,

that man is now signing contracts to bands on behalf of Arrière-Scène Montréal, and renting a studio above l'Alizé venue, 1881 rue Saint-André in Montreal. His is signing both Guy Tremblay and Guy Hardy.

Here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Studio-302/729154807157277?fref=ts

Last phone number known: [protected]

Last email known: hvbooking@musician.org

Last time we heard of him: oct. 17th 2014.

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The Minstrel's Ghost
Tucson, US
Dec 03, 2013 8:24 pm EST
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I can back this up as well. I began conversations with Guy in August 2013. After hearing all the great thing he could do and the fact that some close friends were working with him I decided to give it a shot. I sent some cd's and Press Kits and had a couple of Skype conversations with Guy. The second call I mentioned I would not be leaving my label or leaving them out of anything and that was the last I heard from him. Hope to see justice served.

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Unified Past
Baldwinsville, US
Dec 03, 2013 6:00 pm EST

We can also support these claims 100%, as our band was taken advantage of significantly by this man!

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Montreal citizen
Montreal, CA
Nov 30, 2013 3:48 pm EST

Mr. Stone.
I am afraid your problem is not unique. Both Guy Lacombe and Monique Beausoleil owes landlords, property owners and other businesses in and outside our province lots of money. You are not the only one they have defrauded, to use your own expression.

A Montreal citizen

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Sonia Mota
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Nov 30, 2013 9:25 am EST

These are all real facts, I know a few if the musicians that were affected by Guy Lacome's actions.

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Anonym Victim
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Nov 30, 2013 2:08 am EST

I can confirm that all of this happened, and more. People should read this very carefully. BSM is still searching for new bands, future victims.

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