What inspired the song 'First Tattoo'?

Well I'm always singled out for the way I look and dress, so over the years there's always been people (jocks, lads, and the "fully sick" type) who want to criticize what they don't understand with their fist. We used to drink in one of many ally ways off Oxford street in Sydney and would get into trouble with someone nearly every time, and part of the way I look is tattoos. I remember feeling invincible after I had my first one done when I was 16 years old. Put all that in combination with people constantly telling me how I "should" live MY life (morally, ethically, career wise, socially etc.) and the fact I was listening to a lot of the Ramones, Rancid & The Sex Pistols at the time and out of that came First Tattoo. Ironically the day I wrote it, me & a couple of friends were going to a party in Rockdale and at the train station a group of the "fully sick" type picked a fight and started spitting on us simply for how we looked...
"Hey you, fuck you, don't try and tell me what to do."

-Ronnie Simmons

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