And The Name of eBay's Own Band Playing at eBay Live! Is...

Wow! What a phenomenal response to my blog post asking you to guess the name of eBay's own band playing at eBay Live! Over the last weekend, we had more than 550 responses on the Chatter Blog discussion thread - way to go, folks.

Without further ado, let me reveal the correct answer. If you haven't guessed already from the band's picture here, their new name is: Twisted Lister.

There were clues galore in my original blog post (see below for details), so it wasn't surprising that many people posting to the thread guessed right. In fact, the very first response out the gate from member pioneerep was correct.

Congratulations to the first 5 members who posted the correct answer - we'll be sending out your prizes shortly! Here they are:

• pioneerep (check out this former bike racer's cool About Me page)
• pukmis
• bengc (hey, you were at eBay Live! last year! Hope to see you this year at eBay Live! in Boston. You'll get to meet the band!)
• vencie1 (visit their About Me page)
• insani-tees2007 (she's a T-shirt seller herself, so hopefully she'll also like her Twisted Lister T-shirt).

We're also giving out two special prizes:

• madw45 for the funniest band name that unfortunately wasn't correct: "Bid Vicious"
• naughtynana1 for cracking my favorite clue in the blog post -- she was the first to figure out that an oddly constructed sentence in the blog post was actually a clue. "And one of the weirdest tilts to unscramble in this story is why Domenic Paolo, the band's lead vocalist is considering changing his name to Dee Sniper."  She was the first to unscramble "weirdest tilts" to get Twisted Lister.

For those of you who want to know what all the other clues were, here you go:

• "pun on a famous band's name and an eBay activity" -- an obvious reference to Twisted Sister and Turbo Lister, eBay's popular bulk listing tool.
• References to Twisted Sister songs/albums -- "We're not going to take it," "Bad boys of rock 'n' roll," "Come out and play," and "You can't stop rock 'n' roll." Also, Dee Sniper and A.J. VeRO were names conjured up in homage to Dee Snider and A.J. Pero, real-life Twisted Sister band members.

A huge Thank You to all of you who participated! Hope you guys had as much fun playing this game as we had creating it!

Don't miss watching Twisted Lister perform at the Keynote Address at eBay Live! in Boston. And if you swing by the Community Lounge, you'll be able to meet some of the band members in person (I'll post more details about their schedule later on).