Jason Friedman

**Jason Friedman** is the former high school best friend of Drew Adams, with the two having first met on the very first day of their freshman year. Jason and Drew continued to be friends all throughout high school, doing many things together and hanging out often. However, that came to an end after senior year when Jason moved out to Indiana for college, while Drew stayed in their home state of Ohio.

Jason was born in 1976, around the Union, Ohio area, and eventually came to attend school in the same location. He grew up loving a lot of heavy metal and hard rock music as a kid, such as Metallica, inspiring him to form his own rock band, Ravaged Doghouse, in 1987. At the time, he was the only member, acting as the lead vocalist while teaching himself to play bass guitar at the same time.

On August 31st, 1990, while sitting in his English class on the very first day of freshman year, Jason introduced himself to the student sitting next to him, Drew Adams, and the two quickly bonded over their passions for music. After school that day, Jason took Drew to his house and showed him the full band set in his garage, inviting Drew to become the drummer for Ravaged Doghouse. Jason also revealed he recently came into contact with Louis Motton, a 20-year old lead guitarist who did roadie work with Van Halen. Thus, Ravaged Doghouse was officially formed.

Jason, with the band, played a few small shows around the local area, and eventually built up a small following, enough to get the group to record and release (all independently) an EP entitled *Return of the Ravaged*, released on February 4th, 1991. In June of that same year, Ravaged Doghouse experienced its biggest exposure to a wide audience yet, opening for Rollins Band in Cleveland, Ohio.

However, by the time of September 1991, Jason's mother grew extremely tired of the loud noises coming from her garage, and Ravaged Doghouse broke up soon afterwards, leaving Jason and Drew with little else to do other than hang out and talk about random things. By 1992, Drew had acquired his driver's license, and he often picked up Jason and they would cruise around town blasting music.

Around the same time, in May 1992, Drew took a liking to a classmate of theirs, Laura Rhodes, gaining a crush on her. Jason was highly skeptical of this ever working out, and he informed Drew of this several times. Despite this, both he and Jason headed to the lakeside end of the year party that Laura had kindly invited Drew to, where they stumbled upon Laura's longtime boyfriend, a senior football player named Clark. While Drew was disappointed, Jason felt his point had been proven right, and he was dropped back off at home by Drew as night fell upon town.

High school continued on for both Jason and Drew, and they both graduated in May 1994, when Jason revealed he would be leaving the state, and traveling to Indiana to attend college. This bummed Drew out, and the two said their goodbyes for a long while.

Jason went on to attend university in Indiana, and worked his way up throughout the next couple of decades to earn a career as an A&R man for Warner Bros. Records, signing bands and artists to the label and scouting for various talents.

In June 2016, following his release from prison after the events at Ed's Family Fun Zone, Drew Adams emailed Jason and asked if it would be possible to get together and see each other again, having last seen one another 22 years prior. Although surprised to hear from Drew after so long, Jason obliged, and on June 3rd, 2016, Jason arrived at Drew's house in Akron, Ohio, where the two had a pleasant reunion and short jam session in the garage, officially bringing back two-thirds of Ravaged Doghouse for a brief moment.