Bill Stevenson, according to Town Square Delaware, is an alum of the 1969 Woodstock festival. In fact, the three (or maybe four) days he spent slogging through the mud at Woodstock were to launch him on his life's first path in the music industry after he decided that the rock-and-roll life was the only one for him.

In the early '70s, Stevenson opened Newark's legendary Stone Balloon, a club Rolling Stone once called "the best-kept secret in rock and roll" and Playboy named as one of America's 100 best college bars. The club featured big-name acts in their early days, including the Allman Brothers, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Ray Charles, Run DMC, the Dave Matthews Band, David Crosby, Bonnie Raitt, and Hootie and the Blowfish. On a Facebook photo posted by the 2.0 Stone Balloon reboot, Stevenson said he worked there for 33 years for up to 75 hours a week, but that he'd "never considered it 'work.'"

Stevenson once wrote a book about his experience as a club owner. While The Stone Balloon, the Early Years is long out of print, you can still pick up a used copy on Amazon. A 2013 Facebook post of Stevenson's also spoke of a movie that would be based on the club, but that movie seems to have sunk like a stone... you know what (balloon).