Power Supply is the eighth album by the Welshheavy metalpower trio, Budgie, released in October 1980 on Active Records, a sublabel of RCA Records (which was the distributor of A&M Records — Budgie's previous label — at the time). This is the first album without original guitarist Tony Bourge, who left the band in 1978 after the album Impeckable. Power Supply showcases a more straight forward blues-influenced raw heavy metal sound that dispenses entirely with the experimental approach of the previous two albums, an approach that matched the zeitgeist of the time, reflecting the renewed and revitalised surge of interest in classic heavy metal brought about by the younger NWOBHM bands.[3]
New guitarist, John Thomas from the Southern rock outfit, The George Hatcher Band ventured away from the sometime progressive rock, psychedelicminor chord focused inclinations of the previous guitarist, Tony Bourge, to replace it with a more direct heavy metal blues rockRhythm and blues sound that took the band in new directions with this and subsequent albums, which appealed to the older fans of the band as well as attracting new audiences. [4]
