Israel Beachy was the bass guitarist for the

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bands Staple and

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. Israel was born in

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, United States and lived there with his three brothers and father. Israel graduated from Delaware Christian School in

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in 1998. He was the

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for Staple from 2000 to 2006, when they broke up. He then started playing in a smaller band called Flowerdagger with A.J. (bassist/backing vocals for

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). He became the bassist for

in January 2008, and was on 3 of their albums before he left in December 2012. All the while he was in the legendary band known as "The Awesomist"

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