[1] After traveling to the West and visiting intimate rock clubs in New York and San Francisco, Vsevolod Gakkel was inspired to open a similar venue in Saint Petersburg.
[7] Some Western artists, such as MDC, David Thomas, and Holy Joy, performed at TaMtAm in exchange for room and board.
[3] In the mid-1990s, the club's reputation was badly damaged due to fighting at concerts, drug dealing, and constant raids by the police.
[10][9] The club itself became the starting point for the subsequent creation of similar establishments in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, although many of these were commercial projects that did not share TaMtAm's DIY ideology.
In the summer of 2017, Ivan Bortnikov's documentary film TAMTAM: Muzyka smutnogo vremeni (Russian: «ТАМТАМ: Музыка смутного времени»), which tells the story of the club's creation, was released independently.