UPDATE - 5/13@8:41AM: The podcast is also available in iTunes here (thanks rosmakloma).

As previously announced last week, MusicRadar.com launched a new podcast series with Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers today called In Conversation, and Alex Lifeson is the first featured guest. MusicRadar.com has published the first part of the conversation with Alex Lifeson at this location and will roll out additional installments once a week for three consecutive weeks. The interview took place a few days before the band's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction over a leisurely dinner at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood, California. In this installment Alex chats with Chad for over half an hour about a number of subjects including meeting his wife, their 2 children, his guitars, meeting Jimmy Page and more. You can listen to it and read the transcript at this location, and also listen using the player below. The article also contains a number of photos from the interview.

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