[1] In the late 1970s to 1980s, Parsons was a member of the Manila sound group Hagibis together with Bernie Fineza, Mike Respall, Joji Garcia and Mon Picazo.

[citation needed] In 2011, he was a special guest in the Philippines leg of the greatest hits tour of Bobby Kimball (original lead singer of Toto).

As a result of the July 2002 attempted robbery of Parsons' house, an autobiographical film he was in the middle of shooting titled Konsehal, Halal Kang Palaban (lit.

[4] Parsons played a guest role as the main villain to Coco Martin in the 2017 action-drama TV series FPJ's Ang Probinsyano.

In 2001, Parsons attempted to run for congress, but earned less votes than the three leading candidates: Del de Guzman, Virgilio Farcon Jr. and Celso delos Angeles Jr.[8] Parsons attempted to run for mayor once again in 2004, at times riding a horse during his campaign sorties, but lost to incumbent mayor Marides Fernando, Bayani's wife.

On the morning of July 18, 2002, Parsons thwarted an attempted robbery by six men at his family home in Marikina, killing two of them and injuring another.