Other than on Reunion tour, he's the only one I've seen them with (90125 x 2, Big Generator, Reunion were the Tours I saw 'em), and Reunion had both, though IIRC Bruford was more a percussionist on that tour while White handled the main duties but I may mis-remember.
Not like I go 'awww...man ... I gotta see 'em with Alan ... womp womp' ... not like I would with, say, Trevor Rabin taking Howe's place ... lol ...
LIVE, I'm pretty neutral, but on RECORDS, I prefer Bruford's, for sure. Though Alan kicks some serious ass on The Gates of Delirium, among others of course.
So arguably ... THE ultimate LIVE Yes lineup in this vid. And you can find the whole show on YT and DVD, it's pretty damn great.
Yessongs IS amazing (Yours is No Disgrace is a particular fave, love the intro) but I swear it frustrates me because it's a very subpar recording job, even for 1973 and being a live album. Listen to that and No Quarter on The Song Remains the Same back to back and it's real glaring ... and TSRTS isn't even the highest caliber of live recording available circa 1973.
I wish SO MUCH they could clean Yessongs up and make it sound great somehow (Yesshows sounds 100x better, granted its like 1980) cause the performances are STELLAR but the freaking recording sounds like it's made through a cardboard tube ... still I played the hell out of it back in High School 
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