''Rev It Up'' is the second album by the
American hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...
band
Vixen, released by
EMI in 1990. It entered the
UK Albums Chart at No. 20, and placed two songs inside the
''Billboard'' Hot 100. However, it did not match up to its predecessor in the US and EMI dropped the band shortly thereafter. Therefore, this album is the band's last release from a major label. The race car on the US cover belonged to local racing legend and all around hero Bobby Baldwin. The European and Japanese covers show a picture of the band, which is on the back cover for the US release.
Reception
''Rev It Up'' received generally mixed reviews from critics, including a score of 3 out of 5 from AllMusic.
Track listing
Personnel
;Vixen
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Janet Gardner – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
*
Jan Kuehnemund – lead guitar, backing vocals
*
Share Pedersen
Sharon June "Share" Ross (formerly Pedersen; born Sharon June Howe; March 21, 1963 in Glencoe, Minnesota) is an American musician. She was the bass player of the female hard rock band, Vixen, from whom she has been on hiatus since February 2022.
...
– bass, backing vocals
*
Roxy Petrucci – drums, backing vocals
;Additional musicians
*Michael Alemania – keyboards
;Production
*Randy Nicklaus - producer
*Dennis MacKay - engineer
*
Chad Blinman, Chris Fuhrman, Mike Gunderson, Gina Immel, Rob Jacobs, Bill Kennedy, Chad Munsey - assistant engineers
*
Mike Shipley - mixing
*
George Marino - mastering at
Sterling Sound
George Marino (April 15, 1947 – June 4, 2012) was an American mastering engineer known for working on albums by rock bands starting in the late 1960s.
Biography
Marino was born on April 15, 1947, in the New York City borough The Bronx. He at ...
, New York
*Mark Sullivan - production coordinator
*David Reilly - sound technician for Jan Kuehnemund's guitar
*Jack Benson - second engineer
Charts
References
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Vixen (band) albums
1990 albums
EMI Records albums