Three piece with squeaky vocals...? 
Danke schön. I always found a similarity between the three Wellies and the
early stuff (before they progged out) of the three Canucks (they both had odd lyrics and song titles plus a certain quaintness and angularity in their sound, something Rush would later flaunt excessively while Budgie tried to sand it away as their career progressed and they changed their lead guitarist). Also, Burke Shelley's voice was as divisive as Geddy Lee's (I liked both) plus he even looked a bit like Geddy Lee (or the other way around):
But while early Budgie preceded early Rush by a few years, I'm not saying that there was any conscious influence, Geddy & Co. had probably never heard of the rather obscure Welsh three-piece (they have always been frank about their influences).
More surprising still is however that Dave listens to something like Budgie at all (add his relatively recent Grand Funk Railroad confession to this!). Before heavy rock conquered the stadiums, he must have liked some of it!
