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Greetings cocktail fans! My name is Brother Cleve, and I’ve been drinking cocktails since the ’70s, and making them since the ’80s. As a musician and DJ, I spent most of my life touring around the world, eating and drinking local all along the way. (Some of you may remember The Del Fuegos, Barrence Whitfield, The I-Tones, and Combustible Edison, the world’s first “cocktail music” band.)
I was arguably the first person in Boston to bring back classic cocktails at a time when everyone was ordering Sex On The Beach, Woo Woo’s, and Mudslides. Not many people cared back in 1988, but they did in 1996 when I launched the first weekly lounge music and cocktails party at The Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, with lines around the block every week. The B-Side Lounge debuted in ’98 and I was on the opening team. I’m still making drinks today at Paris Seaport Bar and Creperie, and still travel the planet when there’s not a pandemic crafting libations and giving spirited history le