Growing up in a family-run music store, Mike Miltimore was comfortable as a preteen pulling apart guitars, understanding how they worked and putting them back together.
He has fond memories of flipping through the Musical Merchandise Review magazine to see what products industry insiders from across North America picked as the best each year.
“We would wait for the award section to come out to see if our products that we had in our store were listed in there and if what we voted for was one that won,” he said.
“It was always an exciting moment. My dad would wait for me to get back from school so we could look at the magazine together.”…