"Quiet and curious" Van Baelen describes Lustfaust's drummer Matsushita 'Bobby' Kazuki.

The oldest member of the band, Kazuki was born in Okinawa, Japan in 1935. By all accounts he became obsessed by Jazz after encountering American music during post war occupation and began to study piano. Chasing his dream he headed to San Francisco in 1952 aged 17 and would only truly return to his homeland to live with family a year after Lustfaust finally ended in 1982. His niece recalls:

"I was 10 years old when my Uncle came to live with us. I was a very curious child and though he didn't talk about himself or his life he was unable to avoid direct questions so i kept asking and we developed a rapport. He often talked about San Francisco and his love of the music he encountered there. He also loved the Beats and American painting particularly having witnessed numerous readings at the City lights Bookstore."

Originally living with teacher of Eastern Philosophy Alan Watts to whom Kazuki had been directed by a relative Daisetz Suzuki. "My uncle was very grateful to those people as he met John Cage and lots of fascinating artists and musicians but he was completely uninterested in Eastern Philosophy so quickly moved to where all the 'hep cats hung' which was what they called Japan Town."

Japan Town had become a predominantly black district after Japanese internment during the Second World War and was close to numerous Jazz clubs and other creative hotspots. Kazuki befriended another Japanese ex-pat, struggling drummer Jiro Imaidegawa, and began to learn percussion. Later they would fall out when the student's abilities began to surpass those of his teacher.