He also performed with (among others) the Plastic Ono Band, on “Instant Karma” and “Imagine.”
I saw Yes in the old Boston Garden back in the late 70s so Alan White was the Yes drummer I knew. Looking at his bio I had know idea how many groups he played with. He must have been very well admired and sought after.
My first Yes concert was in Philly at JFK Stadium in 1976. Great concert. 130k in attendance. One of my favorite bands. RIP Alan White.
My 2nd concert was the 90125 tour. Yes is one of my top 4 groups. The last major concert I went to was Yes, 9-10-2001.
Where did you see them on 9/10/01?
I never did see them live, but “The Yes Album” (the front cover features their original drummer, Bill Bruford, with his leg in a cast) and “Fragile” are two of my all-time favorites.
And he’s not the only classic musician we lost today.
I saw him and them in the Union tour in the Oakland Coliseum, in the round. Wikipedia reminds me that was 17 May 1991.
Alan White and Bill Bruford on stage together! Amazing.
I was at the same show! Saw them again several years later (1998?) at San Jose’s Center for Performing Arts.
Yes is one of my favorite groups, as well, and I’d gotten to see him play twice with them: on the 90125 tour in 1984, and then on a tour in 2008.
I’d known that he was in the Plastic Ono band, but I hadn’t realized, until reading his obituaries today, with how many other musicians he played in the 1970s.
I was listening to Deep Tracks on SiriusXM this evening, and DJ Jim Ladd did a segment on White, and played some Yes, as well as some of his tracks with Lennon and Harrison.
Rest in peace, Alan.
The Garden State Art Center. In fact that is where I saw them in 1984 also. I think 3 other shows also.
Up at the Meadowlands Arena I saw the Union tour which I’m pretty sure had White and Bruford.
Another unfortunate void left in the hall of great drummers.
Was one of them providing more of the basic backbeat role while the other ‘roamed’ a bit?
I gotta say - that was something I was wanting to find out at a 2006 Bill Bruford drum clinic, but all he had to say about that recording and subsequent tour was that it was maybe the most regrettable career thing he’s ever done.
Regardless, I was blown away that he amassed over 3.000 gigs with them and played on over 40 of their albums. Not that I’m saying quantity is king or anything, but that’s still a metric crap-ton load.
And what a really shitty burn that two weeks before he died, his home and a nearby storage facility got broken into, with a bunch of valubale recording items gone missing or vandalized, like platinum albums and the drum kit used on the Plastic Ono sessions.
One can only imagne the toxic turn that took on him. 
Regardless, his legacy is up there with all the other recently-passed that I don’t need to name, jamming away.
RIP.
As I remember it, the entire eight-piece band came out on stage for the first number, I think it was “Yours is No Disgrace.” After that, certain members would come out to play certain songs. “Owner of a Lonely Heart” featured the 90125 lineup, plus Wakeman(!). “Long Distance Runaround” consisted of the Fragile lineup, but then they went into “Whitefish” and the personel changed. And so on. I think Squire was the only one who was on stage for the entire show (which stands to reason, being the only bassist they’d ever had up to that point).
I do recall that when they played “Lift Me Up,” both drummers were on stage. White played the main beat, and Bruford played percussion - some kind of stand-up xylophone thingie, my memory isn’t very clear. 
There was also a long-running urban legend that Neil Peart (RIP) had a Ph.D. He didn’t, but Bill Bruford, whose IQ if put on a meter would also cause the glass to shatter and the dial to go BWEEEE-OW-BWEEEE, does.
(So, for that matter, does Geddy Lee’s son, Julian Weinrib. He’s a professor of education at the University of Toronto; in short, he teaches future teachers.)
Great drummer and co-writer of one of my very favorite songs.