Too-Weird Phish Arriving With Billboard Listing March 19, 1993 - The Plain Dealer (Pg. 35) by Jane Scott Phish, booked at the Cleveland Agora Theater on Thursday, April 22, has said it's too weird to go mainstream. That was last year. Today its Elektra record, "Rift," has popped up on Billboard's 200 album list. The band not only has a Phish hot line but a Phish net, a computerized system through which fans can talk to each other. (Shades of the Grateful Dead). At last count there were more than 14,000 fans on its newsletter address list. Keyboard player Page McConnell doesn't see anything weird about drummer Jon Fishman playing a vacuum cleaner, though. Fishman has gotten some good sounds playing Syd Barrett songs and Neil Diamond's "Cracklin' Rosie," McConnell has said. True, guitarist Trey Anastasio and bassist Mike Gordon have been carried onto the stage on trampolines, but somehow they fit in. Fans can judge for themselves at the Agora show at 8 p.m. There will be no opening act. Tickets are $14 in advance at the theater, 5000 Euclid Ave., and at Ticketmaster and its phone charges, 241-5555 here, 945-9400 in Akron. They will be $16 day of the show.